Witness-Patchelly Kambale Musonia

Witness-Patchelly Kambale Musonia, also known as Kambale Musoni, (1982?-June 21, 2011) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a journalist and host of a daily talk show program on a community station called Radio Communautaire de Lubero Sud in Kirumba, North Kivu, which is northwest of Rutshuru. He was killed after reporting about a recent arrest of a dozen people accused of trafficking military weapons for criminal activity.

Musonia was shot at close range three times in the chest by three unidentified gunmen on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 as he walked home from his office at Congo Chine Télécoms in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where he worked as a communications officer. Radio station director John Maliro told the Committee to Protect Journalists that witnesses heard gunshots around 7:30 p.m. and claimed that the gunmen seemed to have been waiting for Musonia. His death came amid a series of attacks on the press in the run towards presidential elections in November 2011.

On 17 June 2011 on a radio program, called Kirumba Toka Tshini (Kirumba Stand Up), Musonia discussed the recent arrest of a dozen people accused of arms trafficking for criminal activity with a local civil-society member. During this phone-in program callers blamed the violent crime in Kirumba on bandits operating with the complicity of the local police.

Witness-Patchelly Kambale Musonia began working as a local communications officer and host for Radio Communautaire de Lubero Sud in the Congo's North Kivu province in 2008. He worked in an office at Congo Chine Télécoms in Kirumba.

He was the sixth journalist to be murdered in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2007.

According to the CPJ, authorities in the eastern Congo have exhibited an alarming pattern of failing to investigate and prosecute the murders of journalists. Musonia was the sixth journalist to be murdered in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since 2007. Sadly, most of these murders have gone unpunished.