Congo Opposition Party Spokesman Assassinated, State Says

Cherubin Okende Senga, a former minister and spokesman for the party of leading Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi, has been killed in an “assassination,” Patrick Muyaya, the government’s spokesman, said on Twitter.

Katumbi’s external public relations agency said Okende Senga’s body was found on Thursday and he had been beaten and shot. He went missing in his car outside the Constitutional Court in the capital, Kinshasa, on Wednesday.