Mozambique were following orders of someone to murder him, but they did not reveal the name. • On 8 December, a group of eight armed men, all unknown, allegedly from the Mozambique Defence Force, threatened to kill the journalist and coordinator of the community radio station in Catandica, Manica province. The same group, driving a Mahindra vehicle, robbed and tortured two of the journalist’s children and vandalised property. They asked the journalist’s children about his whereabouts. At the time, the journalist was not at home. John Chekwa and Rádio Catandica are accused of being responsible for the poor electoral results of the Frelimo party in Catandica, because they invited people quite critical of Frelimo’s governance as guests on their radio programmes. DIGITAL MIGRATION AT A SNAIL’S PACE The digital migration process in Mozambique, started on 7 November 2010, with the adoption by the Council of Ministers of the DVB-T2 technological standard and later with the creation of the National Digital Migration Commission (COMID) to prepare the National Digital Migration from Analog to Digital Broadcasting, has moved along at a slow pace. Deadlines have been missed by a wide margin. The end of analogue broadcasting was set for June 17, 2015. Almost two years later, Mozambique has yet to demonstrate any decisive development in the migration process. The migration commission, COMID, has since been extinguished and the process passed over to a new public company, the Transport, Multiplexing and Transmission (TMT). The new entity is made up of the public companies TV de Moçambique (TVM), Rádio Moçambique (RM) and Telecomunicações de Moçambique (TDM) and without any private operator. This raises concern, given the risk that the public entities, owners of TMT and heavily controlled by the political power, are at the same time competing with the private ones and may in the future resort to acts of blackmail, even more so in the context of the party-centric State and control of the content of some of the government media. Armed conflict and the economic crisis were the biggest threats to press freedom. Community radios, which are quite influential in the districts where they are in place, fear that they might be adversely affected, since they are not yet ready for migration. In Mozambique, revenues from many community radios do not even cover running costs. A recent study (FORCOM, 2016) indicates that community radio stations played a key role in the 2014 elections, which was a cause for concern for government officials. In 2015, the Government cancelled the tender that had been awarded to StarTimes Software Technology Co. for breaches of the agreements and launched a new public tender that was won by the same company. The results were made public in October 2016. At present a number of processes are unfolding to find financing for the project, So This is Democracy? 2016 63