The murder of Gilles Cistac: Mozambique's future at a crossroads

† Sources used here are mostly from Mozambican media and Facebook interventions of journalists and interested commentators. Frelimo has been in power since Independence, in 1975, and controls the national television channel (TVM), the national Rádio Moçambique, as well as the national news agency AIM, the daily newspaper Notícias and the weekly Jornal Domingo. Periodicals independent of state control are: O País, Savana, Zambeze and Canal de Moçambique (CanalMoz electronically), associated with MediaCoop; Verdade is a newer, free newspaper which has relocated to the northern province of Nampula but continues to feature the easiest access online. Smaller radios and newspapers exist at the provincial and city level, in particular in Sofala, a stronghold of opposition parties Renamo and MDM.

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to the ROAPE editorial team's support and the anonymous reviewer for comments provided. Any errors are mine alone.

Note on contributor

Ana S. Ganho is a PhD researcher at the University of Manchester. Her thesis examines how state and popular sovereignty are being shaped by but are also shaping foreign agricultural investment, as illustrated by the interactions of state and non-state actors at the international, national and subnational levels. Previously, Ana worked in higher education and development-related organisations (in the USA, Portugal and central Africa), and observed elections in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Notes

† Sources used here are mostly from Mozambican media and Facebook interventions of journalists and interested commentators. Frelimo has been in power since Independence, in 1975, and controls the national television channel (TVM), the national Rádio Moçambique, as well as the national news agency AIM, the daily newspaper Notícias and the weekly Jornal Domingo. Periodicals independent of state control are: O País, Savana, Zambeze and Canal de Moçambique (CanalMoz electronically), associated with MediaCoop; Verdade is a newer, free newspaper which has relocated to the northern province of Nampula but continues to feature the easiest access online. Smaller radios and newspapers exist at the provincial and city level, in particular in Sofala, a stronghold of opposition parties Renamo and MDM.

1. See http://www.iese.ac.mz/?__target__=investigator&investigatorid=1. Accessed March 10, 2015.