{Hearing the name “Saidat Mukakibibi,” one remembers some words she uttered to journalists during her release from jail.}
It was on 25 June 2013 when Saidat Mukakibibi left the Central Prison of Kigali.
Speaking to journalists who were armed with sound recorders, Microphones, cameras, Notebooks, etc, Saidat said “I was imprisoned as a journalist and I left as a Journalist”
Five months later, she founded a bimonthly ‘Mont Jali News.”
This Rwandan Female Journalist told this site that the editorial line of her Newspaper focuses on rural development, field visit in order to find out what is going on among rural communities, and how citizens understand issues that affect their lives, etc.
In the first issue that appeared on December 9th, there are somehow hard critical accents as these ones “Hutus in penitence seat” literary translated:”Abahutu mu ntebe ya penetensiya” where Hutus apologize for the sins that were committed in their ethnic names.
Another title in her Newspapers appears to be “Gen. Rwarakabije should be forced to resign …
The second issue of the journal has a revealing title of the editorial line of the newspaper that ‘Victoire Ingabire starts Calvary’, ‘what the message Mandela carries to Rwandan Heroes?
Commenting on the name of her Newspaper, Mukakibibi explains that ‘Mont Jali News” is a news papers which stands on a summit of the mountain like the Jali Mountain where everyone can hear the loud sound which voiced from that mountain.
She said the Newspaper was founded to give a voice to every Rwandan to freely express him/herself by sharing constructive ideas which also support Unity of Rwandans rather than encouraging disunity among them.
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