The Agence d'Information d'Afrique Centrale (ADIAC) is a private

news agency A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters. A news agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswir ...

established in 1997 in the Republic of the Congo. ADIAC has headquarters in Brazzaville, and is run by

Jean-Paul Pigasse Jean-Paul Pigasse (born 1939) is a Brazzaville-based French journalist and media proprietor. Early life Jean-Paul Pigasse was born on 26 July 1939 in Toulouse, France. Career Pigasse wrote under the pseudonym of 'Favilla' for '' Les Echos'' from ...

. ADIAC publishes a newspaper, ''

Les Dépêches de Brazzaville ''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'' is a French-language daily newspaper in the Republic of the Congo.Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, ''Congo Brazzaville'', Paris: Le Petit Futé, 2014, p. 6/ref> It is published by ADIAC, owned by Jean-P ...

''. Originally published monthly, as demand grew it was published at greater frequency. In 2007 it became the first daily newspaper in the Republic of the Congo. In 2017 ADIAC launched a second daily newspaper, '' Le Courrier de Kinshasa'', in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

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News agencies based in the Republic of the Congo 1997 establishments in the Republic of the Congo Mass media companies established in 1997 {{RCongo-stub