The Ordeal of Journalists in the Republic of the Congo: “Freedom of the Press Is Conditional. some Issues Are Tolerated and Others Much Less”

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Congolese journalist Rosie Pioth, 43, had no intention of leaving her country, but at the end of July she had to pack up after receiving death threats. The crime of this television correspondent France 24 and director of the Fact Checking news portal was to publish an article about the anniversary of one of the most violent events in the country’s history: the bombing of the capital’s Maya-Maya International Airport in Brazzaville in 1982. In he…