TANZANIA: TWO PARDONED FOR MURDER

Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete commuted the death sentences of Former Police Corporal Juma Mswa and Constable Mataba Matiku to two years imprisonment, which they had already served. The duo were sentenced to death in 1998 for murdering the former director of Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service Lieutenant General Imran Kombe on June 30, 1996, at Maili Sita in Moshi.