Media told to beware of misleading foreign news

Details Published on Monday, 17 February 2014 01:46 Written by MASEMBE TAMBWE
LOCAL media have been challenged to give a critical assessment of the
message behind stories from the wire (international media agencies) as
some of them might be illintentioned to propagate some hidden agenda.
The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ambassador, Juma-Alfani Mpango told the 'Daily News' that whilst it
wasn't his intention to interfere with press freedom, care should be
taken when selecting which news to publish.
"President Jakaya Kikwete once said that if we are building the same
house, why should we fight for the building materials? Our primary
goal is to strengthen cooperation between our countries, having
articles with bad taste doesn't help," he said.
He said that on many occasions people tend to forget that where one's
freedom of expression ends, it is where another person's starts and
therefore when one wants to say something, one should weigh the words
first before they are aired.
Ambassador Mpango was making reference to an article that appeared on
the Huffington Post website bearing the headline 'Congo: The Patchwork
Country' written by Obadias Ndaba who is a commentator and columnist.
The article said the trouble with Congo has never been confined to the
eastern part of the country. It further alleged that its root cause
was absence of government control, entrenched corruption and a sad
history of a succession of commandersin- chief from its inception. All
of this prevented the country from developing any sense of nationhood
or belonging to a common ideal.
Mr Mpango said what people don't realize or fail to understand was
that every country has its ups and downs and there is none that is
perfect. "There is no country in the world that opposes peace and
development for the wellbeing of the people.
We (DRC) are a huge country with numerous challenges but the
government is making strides to address them," he said. The Ambassador
said that it was in the best interest of all African countries to
strive at fostering closer cooperation in trade, social affairs,
sports, music, economic and cultural ties because they are a catalyst
to development.
Referring to the article, he said it was not true that there are
tribal conflicts ongoing and that the security situation was very
tense. He admitted that there were unstable pockets (locations) but to
a larger extent the country was safe and calm and that economic
development was in progress.
The article cited that Katanga is the richest province in Congo, with
a third of the world's cobalt reserves and a tenth of the world copper
reserves. Like Congo, Katanga is a massive ungoverned territory, more
than twice the size of the United Kingdom, sitting a thousand miles
away from Kinshasa.
Katanga's people are displaying an increasing feeling of uneasiness
and anger, like the rest of the country, that Kinshasa comes to take
away their resources and does nothing to fulfill the basic roles of
governance. Security is nonexistent.
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