MOZAMBIQUE 1.3. There are no laws restricting freedom of expression such as excessive official secret or libel acts, or laws that unreasonably interfere with eh responsibilities of media. Analysis: There are laws that restrict the Freedom of Expression in Mozambique. One of such laws is the General Statute for Public Workers, (EGFE), preventing or thwarting public workers from speaking in public about their own work. Such provisions contribute towards the proliferation of unnamed sources in media reporting. Such provisions differ from law nr. 30/2001, which states that public workers shall cooperate with journalists in as far as access to official sources are concerned. The Media Law (Press Law) also has some excessive provisions. For instance, article 29 (1) and (2) of this legal monument, regarding the official sources of information, are contradicting each other, once (1) states the access must be facilitated while (2) talks about consent. It is worth little to facilitate without consent. Other areas of the Media Law (Press Law) considered to be problematic are Article 42 (on crimes of media abuse) stating that media crimes are of an urgent nature, and Article 47, stipulating that when the plaintiff is the Head of State, there is no evidence in relation to the veracity of the facts, which is unreasonable. In the draft amendment bill of the Media Law (Press Law), this article is in the process of being deleted, given that Article 153 of the Country’s Constitution of 2004 stipulates that the State President is liable for criminal acts committed during his/her office, a provision that was not included in the 1990 Constitution which served as a basis for the approval of the Media Law. It was decided that the good thing, in as far as the media crimes was concerned, was that many of those that were calumniated in real terms did not know the Media Law. Journalists should be aware that a Code of Conduct for Senior State Officials – involving ministers, 4 African Media Barometer - Mozambique 2007