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Two people taken hostage in Mali including the Prefect of Tenenkou (Mopti), Makan Doumbia have been freed, the secretary general of the Union of Civil Administrators, Ousmane Christian Diarra confirmed to APA on Tuesday.

The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) announced Tuesday that it was abandoning its moral policing role in Mali’s northern town of Kidal, including a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol.

Former Mozambican Finance minister Manuel Chang has been denied bail by the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg, for doing so would undermine South Africa’s criminal system, Magistrate Sagra Subroyen ruled on Friday.