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The world urgently needs an international anti-corruption court

Corruption flourishes when justice systems are captured by the wealthy and powerful

Former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang. (Wikus De Wet/AFP/Getty Images)

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

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Wikus de Wet/AFP)

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

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Wikus de Wet/AFP)

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

‘Mr 10%’: Former Mozambican president Armando Guebuza during the trial in a maximum-security prison in Maputo. (Alfredo Zuniga/AFP)

Former Mozambican president Guebuza turns on his successor

Armando Guebuza gave evidence in a corruption trial that has transfixed the nation

The Johannesburg high court on Wednesday ordered that former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang be extradited to the United States.   (WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)

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…

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

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

A woman holds her child while standing in a burned out area in the village of Aldeia da Paz outside Macomia. (Marco Longari/AFP)

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?

Ronald Lamola is demanding that 013News retract an article suggesting he interfered in the decisions of the National Prosecuting Authority (Delwyn Verasamy/M&)

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

Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

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 Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang. (Wikus De Wet/AFP/Getty Images)

Former Mozambican finance minister avoids US extradition

Manuel Chang will be tried at home, but the American embassy is not happy

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

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

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

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

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

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

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

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.

Chang was detained over alleged secret loans to state companies totalling $2-billion in a widening scandal that is set to shake the Frelimo party that has ruled since 1975. (Getty Images)

Mozambique ruling party grapples with state debt scandal

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang’s arrest at has triggered a political crisis ahead of the country’s elections later this year

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

Court backs arrest of Mozambique ex-minister

Since Manuel Chang’s arrest on December 29, three former employees of Credit Suisse bank have been arrested in London for possible extradition

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

Former Mozambican finance minister continues to fight against extradition to the US

The US accuses Manuel Chang of conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering

Mozambique looks to donors to boost budget

More than 50% of Mozambique’s national budget for 2008 will be made up of a financial injection from foreign donors, the Friday edition of Daily Investor Intelligence reported.…

SA, Mozambique aim to boost cross-border trade

South African President Thabo Mbeki and his Mozambican counterpart Armando Guebuza reached agreement Tuesday on moves aimed at increasing access and levels of trade across their…