🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed.
“I am informed of very sensitive things” said Arlindo Chissale, one of the few Mozambican journalists investigating electoral fraud and abuses committed by the security forces.
Three days after publishing this video online, he disappeared.
In a country ruled by one party for half a century, dissent has no place. Forbidden Stories and its partners investigated the broader pattern of enforced disappearances and political killings in Mozambique.
🔴🇲🇿 [New investigation] #MozambiqueExposed: Inside the machinery silencing journalists in Mozambique.
👉 While Mozambique remains largely under the radar of international media, the country is facing a deepening crackdown on press freedom.
🇲🇿#MozambiqueExposed: New revelations on June 9th. Stay tuned.
🇲🇿#MozambiqueExposed : Novas revelações em 9 de junho.
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M28 Investigates
Since the disputed October 2024 elections, journalists, bloggers and opposition figures have been targeted by intimidation, disappearances, killings and alleged poisonings, and the authorities do little to nothing to investigate them.
Together with our partners, we examined a series of cases that illustrate the climate of impunity: from the disappearance of radio journalist Ibraimo Mbaruco in 2020, to the killing of blogger Albino Sibia while livestreaming a protest in 2024, the abduction of reporter Arlindo Chissale in 2025.
📍In Cabo Delgado, a province devastated by conflict between Islamic State-linked insurgents and Mozambican forces, authorities are accused of imposing a media blackout.
Journalists attempting to report on the war and the impacts of major gas projects face threats, harassment, arrests and expulsion.
