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    A BBC journalist, Caroline Pare, and the director of a Kinshasa-based weekly ‘Le Carousel’, Emile-Aime Kakese Vinalu, were arrested and detained on Friday by security forces in the DRC. AFP quoted media sources as saying that Pare was arrested while visiting a former executive of a diamond mining company, Jonas Mukamba. Several people present at Mukamba’s home at that time were also arrested. Pare was reportedly preparing a documentary on the death of former Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba. Mukamba was one of the last people to see Lumumba alive before his assassination in 1961. The publication of an article calling for political resistance could have been the reason behind Vinalu’s arrest, media sources

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