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Zap Viva resumes broadcasting in Mozambique and Portugal but channel remains suspended in Angola

Zap announced this Wednesday that the channel Zap Viva will resume normal broadcasting in Mozambique and Portugal, remaining suspended in Angola, since April 21, by decision of the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication (Minttics) .

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According to a statement from the telecommunications operator owned by Finstar, a company controlled by businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, daughter of ex-president José Eduardo dos Santos, the broadcast will resume in Mozambique and Portugal, starting at 8 am on Thursday.

Zap said that the suspension of the broadcast in Angola motivated the interruption of the channel in Mozambique for purely technical reasons, while in Portugal the Zap Viva Internacional remained available with the replacement of programs.

On April 21, the Government announced that it would suspend the channels Zap Viva and Vida TV and Record TV Angola, as well as newspapers, magazines, websites and radio stations with no effective activity in the last two years, after detecting "legal non-conformities".

Minttics justified the decision with the fact that the Record network, belonging to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD) has as executive director a non-national citizen and foreign staff not accredited to exercise journalistic activity in Angola.

The Angolan authorities have also detected that the pay-TV companies - TV Cabo, DSTV Angola and Finstar (owner of Zap TV) -, although they are duly legalized, distribute the channels Zap Viva, Vida TV and Rede Record "without registration for the exercise of television activity in Angola ", so the channels Zap Viva and Vida TV have to ensure their" broadcasting ".

The decision was not welcomed by the Union of Angolan Journalists, whose president, Teixeira Cândido considered it to be "an attempt to silence that limits the information diversity in the country.

UNITA argued that the suspension of the three private channels was due to the fact that they were considered hostile to the MPLA's governance and pointed to the risks that the closure of the media poses to jobs.

Record and Zap say they were taken by surprise by the Minttics decision and Vida TV did not comment on the matter.

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