Forbes Magazine’s most powerful woman in Africa shot dead (Photo)
By Rita Chioma
Valentina Guebuza, who was listed as the seventh most powerful young woman in Africa by Forbes magazine in 2013 and held a strong of positions in telecommunications companies has been shot dead.
Ms Guebuza is also the daughter of former Mozambique president Armando Guebuza. She was shot dead on Wednesday in the capital Maputo.
Ms Guebuza,36, is said to have been shot several times and died of her wounds on the way to the hospital.
According to Diario de Noticias newspaper, her husband, Zofina Mujuane, a businessman who once worked with British American Tobacco has been arrested by the police.
The couple married in 2014 at a ceremony with 1,700 guests including South Africa leader Jacob Zuma, the King of Swaziland Mswati III and Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of the Angolan president. They welcomed a daughter last year
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