Mozambique

(MISA/IFEX) – On 15 October 2003, Fernando Manuel, a senior journalist with “Savana” newspaper, was brutally assaulted by a youth. His assailant apparently felt offended by an article written by the journalist and published in the 10 October edition of “Savana”. Manuel sustained extensive injuries to his face and head and is currently receiving medical […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 7 October 2003, TVM (Mozambique Television) journalist Hermínio Nhanombe and Ruben Jossai, of “Savana” newspaper, were threatened and harassed by the bodyguard of Afonso Dlakhama, leader of the opposition Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana (RENAMO). The journalists were covering a political gathering in the Vilankulos district, in southern Mozambique. MISA Mozambique confirmed that in […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 8 October 2003, Anteje Buanar, chairperson of the União Desportiva de Sanjala football club, attacked Luis Dionisio, a sports journalist with the provincial station Radio Mozambique (RM-EP), in the northwestern province of Niassa. Buanar also attempted to confiscate the journalist’s equipment. According to MISA-Mozambique, the incident took place at the end of […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Supreme Court President Mario Mangaze is suing the weekly newspaper “Zambeze” for libel. The lawsuit arises out of an article published in the 10 April 2003 issue of “Zambeze”, in which the paper suggested that Mangaze had interfered in the decision of a lower court for material benefit. Mangaze reportedly phoned Judge Wilson […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: MOZAMBIQUE: SUSPECTS IN CARDOSO TRIAL SENTENCED TO LENGTHY PRISON TERMS New York, January 31, 2003-Six men accused of killing Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso were convicted today and sentenced to lengthy prison terms, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) representative at the trial in Mozambique’s […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: MOZAMBIQUE: CPJ representative to attend verdict announcement in Cardoso trial New York, January 30, 2003-A verdict in the trial of six men accused of killing Mozambican investigative reporter Carlos Cardoso is expected tomorrow. South African journalist Phillip Van Niekerk will represent the Committee to Protect Journalists […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 10 December 2002, two colleagues of murdered journalist Carlos Cardoso told the Maputo City Court that two of the six men charged with the assassination had regularly visited Cardoso’s offices. Victor Matsinhe and Zacarias Couto were reporters at “Metical”, the daily newsletter owned and edited by Cardoso. Couto was also the “Metical” […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 3 December 2002 CPJ press release: CPJ LAUNCHES SPECIAL COVERAGE OF COURT PROCEEDINGS IN CASE OF MURDERED MOZAMBICAN JOURNALIST New York, December 3, 2002-The Committee to Protect Journalists has added a new feature to its Web site dedicated to the ongoing criminal trial in Mozambique of suspects in the […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 11 November 2002 CPJ press release: MOZAMBIQUE: PRESIDENT’S SON TO BE INTERROGATED ABOUT JOURNALIST’S MURDER New York, November 11, 2002-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the recent decision by Mozambique’s judicial authorities to extend their investigation into the murder of journalist Carlos Cardoso to Nymphine Chissano, a son […]

(MISA/IFEX) – First Lady Marcelina Chissano has denied intimidating any of the country’s journalists, and has demanded that her “good name and right to privacy be respected.” A letter sent by her lawyer, Augusto Macedo Pinto, to the independent weekly “Mediafax”, and published on 1 November 2002, also stressed that the first lady wanted to […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release, followed by a CPJ letter to President Joaquim Alberto Chissano: MOZAMBIQUE: CPJ ALARMED ABOUT CASE OF MURDERED JOURNALIST Delivery of Chickens Seen as Threat to Reporters New York, October 8, 2002-In a letter sent today to Mozambique president Joaquim Alberto Chissano, the Committee to Protect Journalists […]

(MISA/IFEX) – One of the six men accused of murdering Mozambique’s best known journalist, Carlos Cardoso, has escaped from Maputo’s top security jail. On 2 September 2002, a police spokesman told Cardoso’s widow, Nina Berg, that the suspect, Anibal Antonio dos Santos Junior (better known by his underworld nickname of Anibalzinho), had escaped from the […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 21 May 2002 CPJ press release: MURDER IN MOZAMBIQUE: CPJ releases new special report on murder of leading investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso New York, May 21, 2002-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a special report today calling on the government of Mozambique to step up its inquiry into […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On Monday 11 March 2002, the libel case pursued by businessman Nyimpinhe Chissano, son of Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, against journalist Marcelo Mosse and the now defunct newssheet “Metical”, was postponed. This is the fifth time that the case has been postponed. The case was to have been heard in the Maputo First […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 16 January 2002 letter to President Joaquim Alberto Chissano, CPJ protested the ongoing prosecution of Marcelo Mosse, formerly chief reporter for the now defunct daily “Metical”, on criminal defamation charges. The president’s son, Nympine Chissano, filed charges against Mosse and “Metical” over a 21 February 2001 “Metical” article reporting that Nympine […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On Monday 3 December 2001, Mediacoop, the cooperative that owns the weekly newspaper “Savana”, announced its intention to sue a district court judge for what it terms the unlawful arrest of Kok Nam, a photojournalist and director of “Savana”. Antonio Gumende, the chairman of Mediacoop, told the Agencia Informação Moçambique (AIM) that the […]