Solange Lusiku Nsimire (1972 – October 14, 2018) was a journalist and women's rights activist from the

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. She was the first woman to run a written newspaper in South Kivu Province in the east of the

.Aviva Stahl
Solange Lusiku Nsimire — The Congolese journalist who fought corruption and championed women
''Women's Media Center'', November 27, 2018. Nsimire started editing ''Le Souverain'', an independent newspaper based in

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, in 2007.Eleanor Klibanoff
A Congolese Mother Of Six Is Honored For Her Death-Defying Journalism

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, October 27, 2014. Accessed July 27, 2020. She managed to resuscitate the newspaper from a moribund state, but faced repeated threats for her journalistic activity. In 2008 her home was attacked three times, and on one occasion armed men tied up her husband and children and stole the family savings. In 2014 Nsimire won a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation. Nsimire died in Kinshasa on October 14, 2018.

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