Articles by Estacio Valoi

Estacio Valoi Investigative Journalist from the Mozambican Investigative Journalism Center Mozambican journalist who advises Oxpeckers on a broad range of environmental problems in the region. He has covered a range of environmental investigations for Zambeze daily newspaper and international media. He helped establish Zambeze and is newsroom chief editor in Quelimane, in northern Mozambique. His investigations have been featured by the Forum for African Investigative Reporters, German Radio Station DW, South African TV station (SABC, and the Reuters Thompson Foundation,e-TV. Collaborator of Express Moz Newspaper, Reporter of Zambeze newspaper, Radio Mozambique. www.rm.co.mz, Maputo, Reporter English service of Radio Mozambique, MCR (Mozambique), including Investigation published in a Verdade ,Savana, Sol do Indico, Canal Moz, Le Monde, Daily Maverick, Allafrica, M&G, 100reporters newspapers among others. He is also photographer Fair- African investigative journalism award winner 2012 Run up 30 October, Johannesburg, South Africa. FAIR member and from Investigative Reporters and Editor (IRE) Board member from (GIJN). Also founder of the Mozambican Investigative Journalism Centre and Moz24h newspaper . Also trainer ( Training with WWF South Africa, Angola training journalist in Investigative reporting and recently in Mozambique Cabo Delgado). Founder the Moz24h Newspaper and co-founder of Mozambican Investigative Journalism Centre a free-lance investigative reporter who focuses on environmental crime and looting in his country, Mozambique, which is racked by poaching of rhino and elephant and robbed of its gemstone and timber resources by a myriad of criminal syndicates, often connected to the highest levels in government. His latest challenge saw him duck and dive bulldozers and security companies’ machine guns in Montepuez, an area ravaged by destructive mining practices and forced removals of villagers, perpetrated by a local elite in cahoots with a multinational gemstones company.