DRC: Vice president takes journalist to court for defamation

On 16 June 2006, Michel Mukebayi Nkoso, the publication director of the Kinshasa-based weekly "Africa News", appeared before the Gombe Deputy Public Prosecutor, Edmond Isofa Nkanga. One of the country's four vice presidents, Jean-Pierre Bemba, filed a complaint accusing the journalist of defamation.