Evariste Djailoramdji

Gender: Male
Radio Journalist

On February 9, unidentified people in the southern village of Sandana shot and killed Djailoramdji, a reporter working for the local broadcaster Lotiko Radio, while he covered a conflict in the area, according to local media reports and Arnaud Djimounoum, a manager at Lotiko Radio, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app. Violence broke out that day in Sandana due to a dispute between herders and farmers, according to media reports. Djimounoum told CPJ that Djailoramdji was among at least 11 people killed that day. In the afternoon of February 9, Djailoramdji transmitted a report to his colleagues that “people draw arms everywhere in the village and the population flees to take refuge in the bush,” Djimounoum said. He told CPJ that the station lost contact with Djailoramdji about half an hour later. Local media and the Union of Chadian Journalists (UJT), a local trade group, reported that the journalist had been shot and killed.

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