Cameroonian journalist Elie Smith chased from Congo

...The Congolese authorities accuse him of "subversion" and "intelligence with foreign powers working against the interests" of their country.

Elie Smith, Cameroonian journalist was deported to his country Friday, September 26, 2014. The Directorate-General of the Congolese police criticized him "of numerous acts, seditious and subversive statements.

He is also accused "of having been in intelligence with foreign powers working against the interests of the Republic of Congo". As well as guilty 'of a political activism bursting, in flagrant contradiction with the conduct of his profession.

Smith worked for the private TV Mntv cumulatively with his duties as Director of studies and planning of the Mncom group. All of the structures belonging to Maurice Nguesso, the elder brother of the president of Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso.

The expulsion of Elie Smith comes after that of Sadio Kante, a Malian journalist Friday to Mali. The organisation Reporters without borders deplored September 26 the fact that "the situation of the freedom of the press in Congo is deteriorating for several months while news looms of the possibility of a constitutional referendum aimed at allowing president Sassou Nguesso seek a new term in 2016".