Le Potentiel is a Democratic Republic of the Congo daily newspaper published by an award-winning journalist Modeste Mutinga.
[1] The Committee to Protect Journalists described it as "the only independent daily newspaper in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo".
[1] According to Mutinga, the paper has "an agenda" of promoting economic development and democracy.
[2] The paper criticized multiple DRC presidents, and Mutinga has been threatened, arrested, and jailed multiple times on charges related to his reporting.
[1][3] In 1992, during the Mobutu Sese Seko era, the offices of the newspaper were bombed.