DRC: Journalist killed as voting day nears

A local journalist in DRC was shot dead on Saturday (July 7) at his home in Kinshasa, press rights group Journalists in Danger (JED) said. Bapuwa Mwamba was killed by three armed men around midnight at his house in the Matete district JED said. Bapuwa Mwamba worked for a number of newspapers in the capital, including the opposition daily Le Phare. JED said the murder "did not seem to be an act of chance", coming about three weeks before crucial presidential and legislative elections in the vast Central African country, reports the Mail and Gaurdian.