At around noon on October 4, members of the Central African Republic police and military arrested Nguéma Ngokpélé, the publication director of the privately owned Le Quotidien de Bangui newspaper, in Bangui, the capital, according to the journalist’s wife, Philomene Nseya Muteba, who visited her husband in detention and relayed information from him to CPJ via messaging app. Nguéma Ngokpélé has written articles about the diplomatic relations between Libya and the Central African Republic and often shares his reporting on social media, according to a local journalist familiar with the case, who requested anonymity for safety reasons.
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