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Following Sunday’s crucial presidential elections to see who will succeed incumbent President Joseph Kabila, authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are clamping down on media and communications as vote counting continues.
On Wednesday government officials withdrew the press accreditation of a French radio journalist Florence Morice from Radio France Internationale (RFI), accusing her of “violating electoral law and the code of good conduct for foreign journalists covering the elections”.
Government spokesperson Lambert Mende, confirming that RFI’s broadcasts had been cut off in all of Congo’s cities, said that Kinshasa would not “let a radio station throw petrol on the flames at a time when we are waiting for the compilation of the provisional results”.
Internet operator Global said on Monday the government cut internet access for an indefinite period just before it silenced RFI, as authorities also cut mobile phone texting, mobile phone service Vodacom said.