Good afternoon. Mozambique’s political parties have been in campaigning mode for some months now, but the officially sanctioned campaign period, which grants additional rights to parties, began at the weekend. Things got off to a depressing start in the city of Angoche, in Nampula province, where since Saturday two journalists have been harassed for no greater crime than covering the election campaign (see below).
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According to the National Forum of Community Radio Stations, mayor Dalila Ussene, her aide, and the local secretary for ruling party Frelimo have all been involved in the incidents, in which one journalist had their camera taken from them, and another lost his phone and was held at a police station for several hours, before the local police commander set him free as he could not see any reason to detain him. It should be embarrassing for local politicians when the notoriously pro-Frelimo police force shows more fairness than they do.
