Missing journalist found in ‘critical condition’

A journalist who went missing on January 4 has been found.

 

The Congolese journalist Samuel Sirasi was found in “very critical condition” and, currently, receiving treament, reports the BBC.

 

Members of the DR Congo National Press Union want the authorities to grant him protection and the culprits, reports news site DRC Actu.

 

The Beni-based journalist went missing in the eastern city of Goma on 4 January, and was found at the weekend near a church in Goma’s Karisimbi district. Locals gave him first aid and alerted organisations that had launched a search for him.

 

Sirasi’s health was in “very critical condition” at that point, his colleague Jaribu Muliwavyo at the Semuliki University of Beni is quoted as saying.