Kinshasa - An American diplomat and five journalists arrested alongside activists in Democratic Republic of Congo have been released, but the African activists remain in custody on suspicion of planning to destabilise the country, officials said on Monday.
Militants from Senegal, DRC and Burkina Faso - as well as the journalists and US diplomat Kevin Sturr - were detained at a press conference the pro-democracy critics organised Sunday in the capital Kinshasa.
"We have released the diplomat and the journalists" but the others were still being questioned concerning a "campaign to destabilise" the mineral-rich nation, said DR Congo government spokesperson Lambert Mende.