Déo Namujimbo
![Didace Namujimbo, right, with colleague Serge Maheshe at Radio Okapi offices in 2006. Both were later murdered. (Déo Namujimbo)](https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/DRC1.jpg?w=400&h=234&crop=1)
Didace Namujimbo, the brother I lost in Bukavu
I shall never forgive myself for having initiated and encouraged my younger brother, Didace Namujimbo, to take up journalism. Working for 21 years in Bukavu, a city nestled on the picturesque shores of Lake Kivu, led me to cover every aspect of the brutal conflict and humanitarian catastrophe in this part of eastern Democratic Republic…