The Agence d'Information d'Afrique Centrale (ADIAC) is a private news agency established in 1997 in the

Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...

. ADIAC has headquarters in

Brazzaville Brazzaville (, kg, Kintamo, Nkuna, Kintambo, Ntamo, Mavula, Tandala, Mfwa, Mfua; Teke: ''M'fa'', ''Mfaa'', ''Mfa'', ''Mfoa''Roman Adrian Cybriwsky, ''Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture'', ABC-CLI ...

, 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.

References

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