Mozambique: Disinformation On the Front Page

Maputo — A shocking story splashed across the front page of the latest issue of the Maputo weekly "Zambeze": the country's new Attorney-General, Augusto Paulino, was, the paper claimed , the subject of a criminal investigation.

Inside the paper, page two was entirely devoted to the claim that Paulino is accused of stealing 300 million old meticais (about 12,500 US dollars) from the state. The article leads Zambeze readers to believe that Paulino used this money, supposedly stolen when he was presiding judge of the Maputo Provincial Court, to buy a house.

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