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Manuel Chang extradited to United States
The former Mozambican finance minister will stand trial in New York for his alleged central role in a debt scandal that triggered a sovereign default
Manuel Chang to be extradited from SA to US within days
A US government jet is waiting at Lanseria to fly the former Mozambican finance minister implicated in an international fraud scandal to New York to face fraud charges
Constitutional court closes door on Manuel Chang extradition tussle
The apex court has denied the government of Mozambique leave to appeal a high court ruling ordering the government to surrender Chang to the United States
Former Mozambican president Guebuza turns on his successor
Armando Guebuza gave evidence in a corruption trial that has transfixed the nation
High court orders Manuel Chang be extradited to US
The order overrules a decision by Justice Minister Ronald Lamola to extradite the former Mozambican finance minister to his home country amid doubts that he would be tried there…
Mozambique wants Lamola to hand over top official behind bars on $2bn scam
Mozambique grows impatient for SA justice minister to rule whether former finance minister will be extradited to Mozambique or US to face corruption charges
Isis is not driving the Cabo Delgado war
Can Frelimo and its backers continue to profit from a failing state while an armed insurgency rages in northern Mozambique? And will South Africa help prop them up?
Lamola halts Chang extradition
Chang has been held in South Africa since December at the request of US authorities over alleged involvement in fraudulent loans to Mozambique SOEs
Why SA extradited Chang to Mozambique rather than the US
Bundling him off to the US would threaten Mozambique’s security and spoil the pan-Africanist agenda
Former Mozambican finance minister avoids US extradition
Manuel Chang will be tried at home, but the American embassy is not happy
Chang should be extradited to US on fraud charges — SA court
Chang was arrested in South Africa on December 30 on a warrant issued by authorities in the US
Court dismisses Chang’s bid to have Masutha decide where he should be extradited to
Chang was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport on December 30 on a warrant issued by authorities in the US
US ‘expects’ SA to hand over ex-Mozambique minister
US Assistant Secretary of State Tibor Nagy said he expected Pretoria to honour the extradition accord it signed in September 1999
Mozambique’s financial scandal may get even bigger
Mozambique’s parliament has lifted immunity for its ex-finance minister Manuel Chang, detained in SA on a US-issued international arrest warrant.