SECTOR 2 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 1.6 2.8 All media fairly reflect the voices of society in its ethnic, linguistic, religious, political and social diversity. OMEC’s report, dated 12 April 2012, was able to highlight the dominance of the presidential majority in the state media compared to the opposition. This inequality manifests itself mainly in the realm of political subjects. The monitoring conducted by OMEC for RTNC1 from 6 to 12 April 2012 revealed that the various socio-professional sectors received 344 minutes or 5h44min airtime, closely followed by officials who received 319 minutes or 5h19min airtime and the presidential majority, which received 280 minutes or 4h40min, and lastly, the political opposition, granted a total of 12 minutes airtime. Among 15 articles on officials, the ACP did not publish one article on the presidential majority nor the political opposition in reports issued between 6 and 12 April 2012. Other socio-political sectors were featured in 58 articles. Overall, very few programmes are produced in the four big national languages, which are Lingala, Swahili, Tshiluba and Kikongo. Only one programme in each of these languages is broadcast twice a day. On the other hand, print media published in national languages are non-existent. This is despite the existence of about 450 ethnic groups that belong to the 4 major geo-linguistic groups constituting the four major national language. It is at the level of the community radios where the question of linguistic variety is taken into account. Around 450 ethnic groups can be found in the DRC, which are divided into four (4) large geo-linguistic groups that cover four (4) big national languages. 94 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER Democratic Republic of Congo