DRC: Radio station suspends broadcasts due to insecurity

On 29 January 2006, the director of Radiotélévision LA COLOMBE (RTC) stationed in Rutshuru, North Kivu province, decided to suspend broadcasting for security reasons. On the evening of 24 January 2006, unidentified soldiers entered the RTC offices and confiscated a Pentium 2 computer, two Nokia cell phones and four dictaphones. Shortly afterwards, the same officers entered the guest house where four journalists from Goma were staying and took away their kitchen implements and luggage. Fearing for their lives, the journalists sought initial refuge in Rutshuru parish before making their way back to Goma.