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Spotlight | Mozambique
Filipe Nyusi moves to contain fallout from disgrace of Guebuza clan

Members of ex-president Guebuza's clan have been arrested in connection with hidden debts scandal. © Reuters

Since the recent arrests in Maputo of Armando Guebuza's former personal advisor, Maria Ines Moiane Dove, and then of his 43-year-old eldest son, Armando Ndambi Guebuza, the clan of the Mozambican ex-president is feeling the full force of the law. [...]

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