SECTOR 1 fact that certain websites are often blocked or manipulated; instances have been noted with the websites of CanalMoz and Centre for Public Integrity (CIP). Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: Score of previous years: ✓ ✓ ✓✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ 3.1 2005=n/a; 2007=n/a; 2009=5.0; 2011=3.8; 2014=4.4 1.10 Civil society in general and the media lobby groups actively advance the cause of media freedom Civil society and in particular the media sector organisations defend the cause of freedom of the press; this is in one way or another part of their mandate – given the awareness of its importance for democracy. According to the panellists, a strategy that such organisations use when dealing with sensitive issues (eg hidden debts) is to take group action rather than to act individually, which exposes them less to possible persecution. However, it was also mentioned that sometimes there is a form of counterinformation within society. Lately, there has been a “slowing down” of civil society actions, which may in part be related to the context of generalised fear and insecurity taking over the country. It was also mentioned that there is the ‘problem of sides’, of speculatively thinking that ’this one belongs to party X and that other one to party Y’, the problem of classifying people according to ‘the side they are on’. It is indeed a classification based on politics in which members of civil society tend to be identified with (by means of their discourse) while exerting their right of freedom of expression. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: Score of previous years: 20 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER MOZAMBIQUE 2018 ✓ ✓✓✓✓✓✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 4.0 2005=1.9; 2007=1.1; 2009=2.8; 2011=2.8; 2014=3.1