On August 27, 2025, six intelligence agents in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, detained Tuver Wundi as he was leaving the offices of the nonprofit Journaliste en Danger, for which he is a correspondent in eastern North Kivu Province.
Wundi told CPJ that he was held and questioned for four days at the government’s National Intelligence Agency and released without charge on August 30. Wundi said his two phones were seized during his detention and returned on September 5.
In was the second time that Wundi had been detained that year.
Beginning on February 25, Wundi was held for 11 days by intelligence agents of the M23 rebel group in Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province. At the time, he was provincial director of state-owned national broadcaster RTNC.
The M23 are part of the Congo River Alliance, or Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), which has been fighting the government for more than a decade, backed by neighboring Rwanda — a charge that Rwanda denies.
The insurgents had captured Goma in an offensive the previous month.
Three people with knowledge of the case told CPJ on condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisals, that the rebels accused Wundi of endangering state security and collaborating with the government in Kinshasa.
Wundi told CPJ that the rebels freed him on March 7 but dismissed him from his RTNC post for refusing to alter programming in their favor.
As of September 2025, CPJ’s requests for comment via messaging app to the presidential spokesperson Tina Salama and M23 spokesperson Willy Ngoma did not receive any replies.