Journalist Arlindo Chissale has been missing since the afternoon of January 7th. The circumstances of his absence from friends and family are still unknown.
Meanwhile, this afternoon, the MZNews contacted a relative of the missing journalist in Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado, and she told him what happened that day.
According to the source, for a few days before his disappearance, Chissale had not been attending work in Nacala, in Nampula province. He organized the trip to Nacala in order to report to work. In Pemba he coordinated the work of PODEMOS.
Chissale rescheduled his trip to Nacala twice on the same day, the source said, quoting the journalist's wife. First, Chissale left home in the early hours of January 7, heading for a car terminal.
"When he arrived at the station he found something strange and went home. That's what he told his wife," said our source.
A few hours later, still in the morning, the scene repeated itself and Chissale returned to his home. It wasn't until late afternoon that he was able to get a car to take him to the city of Pemba, where he was to take another vehicle to Nacala, in Nampula.
"Then he said he'd got a car to make calls. His wife spoke to him and said she was in the Silva Macua area. But when she tried to talk to him a while later, the numbers just kept ringing, but no one answered, until they stopped calling", he clarified.
The source said that the journalist had been receiving threats for a long time, not just this week. "He told me".
"We thought the fact that he wasn't answering his cell phone was because he'd found a place to hide, but the days are passing and we're like this, in agony, because we don't know anything," he said.
We asked if the police authorities were already aware of the journalist's disappearance, to which he replied in the negative, without justifying the reasons.
The family has not yet received any support to look for the journalist.
The source promised to contact MZNews as the case evolves.
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