01 March 2024 | RSF
Radio reporter shot and killed in Guéra, Chad
Shooting
A journalist with Radio Communautaire de Mongo, Idriss Yaya was at home in Djondjol, a village 12 km from the town of Mangalmé, when nine people entered his house and one of them shot him, his wife and his four-year-old son, killing all three.
Yaya had been threatened and attacked in the past in connection with his coverage of the frequent conflicts between the region’s various ethnic groups, in which hundreds have been killed. Last week’s deadly attack came after he was named in the newspaper Le Référent’s Facebook page as the source of a report about the acquisition of illegal firearms by members of the Moubi ethnic group.
Guéra province governor Mahamat Togou said the police had established that Yaya was the victim of a premeditated murder by the nine people who entered his home. The nine intruders were reportedly arrested on 2 March and are being questioned with the aim of identifying which one fired the fatal shots.
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