Congo editor jailed after libel action

The editor of a weekly newspaper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been jailed for 11 months following a libel action brought by a provincial governor. Rigobert Kakwala Kash, of Le Moniteur, is the first journalist to be imprisoned since Joseph Kabila's election as president in October. After the governor of Bas-Congo sued Kakwala, for reporting that he had paid government employees in his province in defiance of interior ministry instructions not to do so, the paper's licence was revoked and it was suspended for six months. (Via AllAfrica.com)