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Arlindo Chissale, a disappearance in the shadows of Mozambique's security services

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Mozambican journalist and opposition activist Arlindo Chissale disappeared on January 7, 2025.
Mozambican journalist and opposition activist Arlindo Chissale (in the foreground, at right) disappeared on January 7, 2025, after a visit to Pemba, a city in the Cabo Delgado region. He helped to organise a number of protests against Frelimo, the party in power, and supported opposition candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who was defeated in the October 2024 presidential elections. © France Médias Monde graphics studio

Arlindo Chissale, a journalist and political activist in Mozambique, disappeared without a trace on January 7, 2025, in Cabo Delgado, a region in the grips of an Islamist insurrection. Chissale’s public stance and worrying signs in the days leading up to his disappearance make his loved ones suspect that the Mozambican security forces were involved.

“Mozambique Exposed” is an investigation being carried out by a consortium of 30 journalists from ten different media outlets based in France, Germany, the United States, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Rwanda and Mozambique and coordinated by Forbidden Stories. FRANCE 24 and RFI are partners in this project.

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