Bruno Ossébi, a Congolese-French journalist known for his criticisms of the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has died of wounds sustained in a mysterious fire at his home. Ossébi, who wrote about alleged high-level corruption for the online magazine Mwinda, was badly burned in the fire on 21 January.
The circumstances of the fire are unknown, but colleagues point out that three days earlier, Mwinda published an interview with an exiled political dissident Benjamin Toungamani in which he accused Congo's president Denis Sassou-Nguesso of corruption. (Via CPJ)
