Estacio Valoi News Today

The Network of African Investigative Reporters and Editors (NAIRE) has issued a call to support the efforts of its members in exposing regimes consisting of “kleptocrats who sell out resources, promote incompetence and nepotism, and oppress civil society.”

NAIRE says its members will continue its work as “ethical journalists who stand firm amid a barrage of fake news and paid propaganda”.

The idea that Africans aren’t aware of the dangers of migration, or haven’t tried to ‘build up their own countries’ ignores the terrible despair they feel at the state of their governments

Riding motorbike taxis has become a lifeline for young men fleeing Mozambique's Islamist insurgency.

MAPUTO — Authorities in Mozambique have arrested two men for allegedly attempting to sell rhino horn in the country’s capital, Maputo. Hilario Lole, a spokesperson for the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC), said the men — notorious rhino poacher Simon Ernesto Valoi, widely known by his nickname, “Navara,” and an associate, Paulo Zukula — were […]

A Brazilian coal mine has exploited Mozambique's natural resources with impunity, leaving resettled communities with dirty water arid land and unchecked pollution, writes Estacio Valoi

Deadly conflict in Mozambique’s ruby- and natural gas-rich northernmost coastal province feeds on a mix of colonial-era tensions, inequality and Islamist militancy. To tame the insurrection, Maputo needs to use force, with bespoke assistance from outside partners, and to carefully address underlying grievances.

Review: Sam Msibi’s perilous dance on the frontlines 17 Dec 2020 Veteran cameraperson Sam Msibi’s memoir, The Accidental Frontline Journalist, reveals what happens after the credits have rolled, including the trauma that arises from documenting brutality. (Photo: Siphiwe Linda) Sam Msibi loves to narrate how he got the moniker “Scud missile”. It was in 1991, during the Gulf War. He was working with the Britain-based Worldwide Television News (WTN) in Israel when Iraq launched a missile ...

OSISA recently commissioned an investigative study with the aim of answering one question: what is the nature of the debt crisis in southern Africa? Four separate investigations were conducted in Angola (Carlos Rosado de Carvalho), Mozambique (Estacio Valoi), Zambia (Charles Mafa) and Zimbabwe (Brezhnev Malaba). We spoke to the lead investigator, Brezhnev Malaba. Why investigative work on debt in southern Africa? The objective of the investigation was to establish the nature and genesis of the...