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  • A British journalist covering an insurgency in northern Mozambique has been expelled and banished from the country, he tweeted on Tuesday, days after his accreditation was revoked over alleged irregularities. Tom Bowker, co-founder of anglophone Mozambican news website Zitamar News, had his foreign correspondent card withdrawn on January 29 -- a move he has denounced as "politically motivated". At the time, Mozambique's government said Bowker -- a former Bloomberg correspondent for the country -- was unable to prove the "legal existence" of Zitamar News, which is run between London and Maputo. Bowker announced his departure from the southeast African country on Twitter, ostensibly just before boarding his outbound flight. "Expelled from Mozambique and banned for 10 years," Bowker posted, accompanied by a photo of passenger boarding tunnels painted in bold white advertisement stating "always count on us" in Portuguese. "A politically motivated move, without legal foundation," he added. "Thanks to everyone who helped us fight it, and who made the last 6 years so wonderful!" A Mozambican immigration spokesman Celestino Matsinhe confirmed to AFP the expulsion, which he said was ordered by the interior minister. Zitamar, founded after Bowker left Bloomberg in 2015, provided daily news as well as analysis on Mozambique, with a particular focus on the extractive industry. Its network of journalists published several articles on an Islamist insurgency wreaking havoc in Mozambique's remote northern Cabo Delgado province, where oil companies have invested billions of dollars in offshore gas exploration projects. Media access to the area has been limited. Several local journalists have been arrested in the province since the unrest started in 2017. The decision to revoke Bowker's accreditation made no mention of Zitamar's insurgency coverage, however, citing only alleged legal discrepancies around the site's status and operations. "Sad that it ended this way," tweeted Human Rights Watch researcher Zenaida Machado after Bowker's departure. "Another embarrassing move by the Mozambique government and a sign that the country is becoming a hostile environment to foreign journalists." sch/sn/dl
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  • Mozambique expels UK journalist covering insurgency
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