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 *Investigative Journalism* 

TVM, SUCESSO, STV, Miramar, News, Radio Mozambique, etc., where are you at a time when the country needs you? 

Why are the press or the media the fourth power? Because information is power. Because the truth, which is the exposition of facts, frees humanity. 

Clearly, these 2024 elections should be invalidated. However, the pressure that the direct competitors put on, as is the case of the persistence of the VM7 / Poderos team together with the CC, CNE and courts, must be increased by the press, reading the technical pieces of the parties, confrontations and producing their conclusions. The journalistic language offers a greater permeability of the facts, compared to the petitions of the parties, which, by the imperative of the very environment of law, are not only long, but coated with almost unreachable terms. Journalism, on the other hand, because the media are periodic, gives out news in parts, hence shorter texts and with accessible language. 

One of the biggest losers in these 2024 elections are the journalists, who couldn't help but remain immaculate to the subversion of Frelimo... what a pity... What a shame to see what is going on in other countries through our media, and not our own. If we have to import everything from cars to cotton swabs, music to football, extensions to garlic, surely we’re not supposed to import news. What a shame that it is the foreign press who reports on our news, doing investigative journalism and telling us more than 296,000 Zimbabweans voted in Mozambique… and there are still those who believe that FRELIMO will govern?
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