''L'Avenir'' is a

daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports ...

published in 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 ...

. The company is part of the

Groupe L'Avenir Groupe L'Avenir is a media group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The company was founded in 1994 by Pius Mwabilu Mbayu, who remains today as its CEO. The group owns several media companies, and owns freight companies in the DRC and in So ...

, a

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of the DRC. The content of the paper is primarily French, and includes content written in

Lingala Lingala (Ngala) (Lingala: ''Lingála'') is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree in ...

and Swahili. It was founded in 1996 as a weekly, and in 2006 became a daily paper, employing about 300

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s. The publisher of ''L'Avenir'' is Joachim Diana Gikupa and the

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is Denis Lubindi. L'Avenir Means "The Future"

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Le Groupe Avenir, the official site
French-language newspapers published in Africa Kinshasa Newspapers published in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Newspapers established in 1996 Weekly newspapers 1996 establishments in Zaire {{DRCongo-stub

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