Simião Ponguane, a journalist for Mozambique Television, lost his life this morning at Maputo Central Hospital as a result of an illness.

Information provided by a TVM says that Ponguane has several times sought treatment abroad, including in Portugal and India.

A statement from Televisão de Moçambique said that the journalist was suffering from liver cancer, a disease he had been fighting for the last three years.

For several years, the old-school journalist was a correspondent for Mozambique's mother television in South Africa, and a notable presenter and moderator of debates on the program Quinta à Noite.

Article updated regarding the date of the event and the paragraph quoting TVM's note at 10:07.