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Attorney-General sacked

    NAIROBI

    The Zanzibar government on Tuesday sacked its Attorney-General Ali Mohamed Omar, hours after he issued a new warrant for arrest of the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) Secretary-General Seif Shariff Hamad and the party’s vice-chairman Shaaban Mloo. The country’s state radio ‘Voice of Tanzania Zanzibar’ announced that Omar had been replaced by Judge Salleh Abdalla Damoha and that the former would be given “another job”. Prior to the sacking, Omar had told journalists that the arrest warrant would also involve eight other CUF leaders. A government official told IRIN on Thursday that in his view the Attorney-General had overstepped his boundaries. “No AG serves warrants, courts do that,” he added.

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