Maputo — The KaMpfumo municipal district court, in Maputo city, on Wednesday sentenced the former mayor of the city, David Simango, to18 months imprisonment for crimes of corruption.
As has become standard practice for relatively short prison terms, his jail time has been converted into a fine. This is normally justified by the overcrowding in Mozambican prisons, made more threatening by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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