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Charges reinstated in high profile murder case

Publish date: 10 May 2021
Issue Number: 921
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Mozambique

An appeals court in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula has reinstated murder charges against the two initial suspects in the 2017 assassination of Nampula City mayor Mahamudo Amurane. A report on the allAfrica site notes that the suspects are former city councillor Saide Abdala and businessman Zainal Satar. They met Amurane at his home shortly before he was shot dead. The Nampula Provincial Court in August issued a dispatch quashing the charges on the grounds of ‘insufficient proof’. ‘The proof in the case file is robust and sufficient. There is enough to take them both to court,’ said Cristovao Milieca, the spokesperson for the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Full report on the allAfrica site

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