Journalists win battle for access to information,but fail to win the war

In November 2014, the National Assembly approved the Right to Information Law and in the second week of October 2015 the government approved its regulations.

Journalists opened bottles of champagne in celebration of victory.The Right to Information act acknowledges the existence of classified information and state secrets, of Justice or Confidential nature that journalists can't seek to obtain by persuasion,entreaty, or formal application from the public or private bodies.

Mozambique has a long history of secrecy and censorship of information. Since colonial times was created the culture of secrecy.There is much information in the public interest that grows in hearts and drawers of state officials or private institutions that holders consider as ''state secrets''.The limitation of providing information to journalists worsened in the last three years in Mozambique.