The Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa) on Wednesday urged the Defence and Interior Ministries to explain, with maximum urgency, the alleged involvement of members of the defence and security forces in the disappearance of journalist Arlindo Chissale in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. Chissale disappeared on 7 January, when he was travelling by bus from his home in the Cabo Delgado provincial capital, Pemba, to Nacala, in the neighbouring province of Nampula.
MISA expressed concern at “the increasingly hostile environment against media professionals, and urged the Mozambican state “to strengthen its commitment to democratic principles, by ensuring the protection of those who exercise the duty to inform’.
(Source AIM)
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