2016

Police arrested Arcénio Sebastião Macuene, a Mozambican freelance journalist, on October 8, 2016, and held him on charges of defaming a police official until press freedom advocates paid his bail on November 11, Mozambican journalists and press freedom advocates told the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Gunmen shot at a car carrying three Mozambican reporters on assignment in Mozambique’s western Manica province on August 12, 2016. One journalist was injured by shards of glass, according to a report from the country’s official news agency.