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[Vanguard] Nigeria, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Mali, Somalia and Mozambique may experience more daring jihadist activities following the triumph of the Taliban in Afghanistan, London-based Economist magazine warned.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi national football team's 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Cameroun in Yaoundé on Friday, September 3 and against Mozambique in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 7 will be beamed live on Azam TV.

[Daily Maverick] Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang -- wanted in both Mozambique and the US on corruption charges -- will stay in jail at least until Friday.

[AIM] Maputo -- One of the allegedly key participants in Mozambique's "hidden debts" scandal, Teofilo Nhangumele, admitted on Wednesday that he had obtained a residence visa for Abu Dhabi on false pretenses.

[AIM] Maputo -- Contrary to initial expectations. Mozambique's former finance Minister, Manuel Chang, was not extradited to Mozambique on Wednesday.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Maputo City Court has agreed to call Mozambique's former Finance Minister, Manuel Chang, as a witness in the case of the country's largest financial scandal, the so-called "hidden debts".

[AIM] Maputo -- Judge Efigenio Baptista, of the Maputo City Court, on Wednesday insisted that the trial of the 19 people accused of involvement in Mozambique's "hidden debts" will remain open to the press.

[AIM] Maputo -- The latest figures from the Mozambican health authorities suggest that the main focus of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country has switched from the southern and central provinces to the north.

[AIM] Maputo -- A high-ranking Mozambican intelligence officer on Tuesday, admitted that he had negotiated bribes of millions of dollars with Lebanese businessman, Jean Boustani, a salesman for the Privinvest group.

[RFI] Nineteen suspects -- including the son of Mozambique's ex-president -- have gone on trial over the so-called 'tuna bonds' affair which plunged the country into its worst-ever financial crisis.

[Daily Maverick] Lawyers involved in the case suspect that Pretoria might pre-empt the courts by putting Manuel Chang on a plane at 7am Wednesday morning.

[Daily Maverick] Anrti-corruption watchdog authorities believe he will escape justice in Mozambique and should be sent to face trial in the US instead.

[New Times] Rwandan and Mozambican forces have surrounded the Islamic State-linked terrorist group's last major areas of operation, Siri I and Siri II, according to reports.

[AIM] Maputo -- Defence lawyers at the trial of Mozambique's largest financial scandal, the case of the "hidden debts", on Tuesday complained they had not been notified of the demand for compensation appended to the indictment.

[AIM] Maputo -- The South African Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, on Monday authorized the extradition of Mozambique's former Finance Minister, Manuel Chang, to Maputo, rather than to the United States.

[AIM] Maputo -- For three out of the last four days, the majority of cases of the respiratory disease Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique were reported from the four provinces north of the Zambezi.

[AIM] Maputo -- The prosecutor in the case of Mozambique's largest ever financial scandal, known as the case of the hidden debts, on Monday demanded that the 19 accused should be ordered to pay compensation to the state of 2.902 billion US dollars, p...

[ISS] Rwanda and SADC took the high road, but should they have invited the African Union on the journey?

[DW] Rwandan forces have driven out Islamist militants in Mozambique's gas-rich Cabo Delgado province. Their success underlines the failure of Mozambique's army, but some observers want Rwanda to state when they will leave.

[AIM] Maputo -- As the trial opened in Maputo of the 19 people charged with embezzlement, money laundering corruption and other crimes in the case of Mozambique's largest ever financial scandal, known as the "hidden debts", defence lawyers demanded t...

[Govt of SA] On 27 December 2018, the Pretoria Magistrate's Court authorised the arrest of Mr Manuel Chang in accordance with the Extradition Act No. 67 of 1962. He was intercepted and arrested at OR Tambo International where he was on bound for Duba...

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported 261 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and a further 15 deaths.

[AIM] Maputo -- The definitive charge sheet from the Public Prosecutor's Office against 19 people accused of involvement in Mozambique's largest ever financial scandal gives exhaustive details of bribes paid by the Lebanon-based company Privinvest, a...

[New Times] It was going to be a matter of time before Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni's rage, over the decision by Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi to seek military assistance from Rwanda to fight Islamic State (IS) terrorists, boiled over to the...

[AIM] Maputo -- On Saturday, for the second consecutive day, more new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease were reported from the north of the country than from the centre and south.

[Daily Maverick] Washington is 'disappointed' by Pretoria's apparent turnaround.

[New Times] Rwandan and Mozambican forces on Friday seized another key insurgents' stronghold after a fierce battle in the forest around Mbau, in Cabo Delgado Province.

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican and Rwandan forces took control of the Mbau area, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, on Friday, according to a report in Saturday's issue of the Rwandan daily "New Times".