Matias Guente
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Mozambican authorities must stop the attack on media freedom
When journalists stop telling the truth about what’s going on in their country, when they stop exposing wrongdoing and corruption allegations, everyone suffers
Press freedom group condemns attempted kidnapping of Mozambican editor
One of Mozambique’s most senior journalists escaped a kidnapping attempt in Maputo on New Year’s Eve. Matias Guente, the executive editor of Canal de Moçambique, was accosted in…
‘I have to choose between starvation or dying of disease’
Cyclone Idai has caused severe damage and left people without members of their families, shelter or food to eat
Despatch from Beira: “I have to choose between starvation or dying of disease”
Some people in Beira are so hungry that they are scooping rotting rice from the flood waters
Beira, one week after the apocalypse
Mozambique’s second city was destroyed by Cyclone Idai, and the mayor claims that aid is being politicised. Beira will never be the same