Mozambique: Journalist Denounces Media Bill Consultations As ‘A Pretence’

Maputo — Senior Mozambican journalist. Tomas Vieira Mario, has denounced the current public consultation on new mass media laws as “a pretence’.

Vieira Mario, cited in the independent daily “O Pais’, said the consultations were just a sham, and the final document will merely answer to “political interests’.

The bill on the media that will go before the country’s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, has been re-drafted repeatedly, Vieira Mario did not believe that the current procedure will…