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Trial of former trade official postponed

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    Guinea-Bissau's former state secretary of trade and tourism, Abdou Mane, had his trial indefinitely postponed on Wednesday because of the absence of the public prosecutor, Lusa reported. It quoted a source at the Bissau Regional Court as saying that the trial would begin as soon as the public prosecutor, Antonio Sedja Mane, returned from Portugal. Abdou Mane is accused of “embezzlement and personal use of public funds” during the government of the now exiled president Joao Bernardo Vieira, Lusa said. Several of Vieira’s former officials and supporters are still in prison, eight months after Kumba Yala’s landslide victory in a presidential run-off.

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