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Southern Africa: SAEF Statement on the Deportation of Zitamar Editor Tom Bowker
Southern African Editors' Forum, 22 February 2021
The Southern African Editors (SAEF) condemns the deportation of Mozambican editorTom Bowker, his partner and journalist Leigh Elston, and their two children by thegovernment… Read more »
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Mozambique: Govt Cracks Down to Curb Reporting On Cabo Delgado War
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 16 February 2021
Zitamar editor Tom Bowker, partner and journalist Leigh Elston, and their two children left Mozambique today, expelled by the Minister of Interior, Amade Miquidade. They are not… Read more »
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Mozambique: Govt Bans British Journalist for 10 Years
CPJ, 16 February 2021
Mozambican authorities should reverse their decision to expel journalist Tom Bowker and allow him to work freely in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Read more »
Editors Condemn Journalist's Expulsion from Mozambique
The Southern African Editors' Forum believes the deportation of British national Tom Bowker is part of a media crackdown which includes the firebombing of another media outlet and a proposal to introduce restrictive media laws. Zitamar News, the online service founded by Bowker and his partner, Leigh Elston, is known for its coverage of the war in Cabo Delgado, and, the forum says, for "exposing the looting of national resources by the elite class."
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings reports that while the government portrays the conflict as an attack from Islamic State militants, journalists, academics and a recently transferred bishop "have been have been pointing to the roots of the war as growing poverty and inequality, and the way just a small Frelimo elite benefits from the Cabo Delgado gas and rubies."
Zitamar News, written and edited in Maputo and London, has fallen foul of the Mozambican government.
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Mozambique: Journalist Tom Bowker to be Expelled
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 29 January 2021
Tom Bowker, journalist and editor of the respected Zitamar newsletter, has been ordered to leave the country by Saturday. The expulsion is entirely unofficial - there is… Read more »
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Mozambique: Pope Backs Nyusi Again, and Withdraws Critical Pemba Bishop
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings, 16 February 2021
Following a long campaign against him by President Filipe Nyusi and his praise singers, the Pope on 11 February withdrew the outspoken Catholic Bishop of Pemba, Luis Fernando… Read more »
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A seizure of drugs on a beach in Nacala Porto district shows that the Cabo Delgado war has pushed the trade south to the coast of Nampula, writes Joseph Hanlon of Mozambi Read more »
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Mozambique's security forces have fought off an attack by militants within the area of Total's U.S.$20 billion liquefied natural gas concession, dramatically raising risks for one ... Read more »
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The northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado is on the brink of a serious hunger crisis and a consequent increase in chronic child malnutrition. Food production, particularly ... Read more »
