{"id":31124,"date":"2016-12-16T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mozambique-s-valentina-guebuza-killed-by-husband\/"},"modified":"2016-12-16T03:22:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T03:22:48","slug":"mozambique-s-valentina-guebuza-killed-by-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mozambique-s-valentina-guebuza-killed-by-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique&#8217;s Valentina Guebuza &#8216;killed by husband&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{One of Mozambique&#8217;s richest women, Valentina Guebuza, has been shot dead by her husband in a case of domestic violence, police say.}<\/p>\n<p>Zofino Muiuane was arrested after Mrs Guebuza was killed at their home in the capital, Maputo, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Guebuza, 36, is the daughter of Mozambique&#8217;s ex-President Armando Guebuza, who ruled from 2005 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>She married Mr Muiuane at a lavish ceremony, attended by regional leaders, in 2014.<br \/>\nWhile police said the shooting was a case of domestic violence, they also said they were still investigating the motive.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Muiuane, a manager at Mozambique&#8217;s first mobile phone company M-Cel, has not yet been charged.<\/p>\n<p>{{&#8216;Powerful woman&#8217;}}<\/p>\n<p>The killing has shocked many people and it is rare to hear of domestic violence in wealthy and politically linked families in Mozambique, says the BBC&#8217;s Jose Tembe in Maputo.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Guebuza became one of Mozambique&#8217;s wealthiest businesswomen during her father&#8217;s presidency, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n<p>Business magazine Forbes listed her in 2013 as one of the 20 most powerful women in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>She headed a family-owned investment holding company, Focus 21 Management &#038; Development, which has interests in sectors ranging from telecommunications to mining.<\/p>\n<p>Focus 21 has a significant stake in Chinese Pay TV Company StarTimes&#8217; operations in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17062 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_92987582_gue2.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs Guebuza headed a family-owned investment company\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{One of Mozambique&#8217;s richest women, Valentina Guebuza, has been shot dead by her husband in a case of domestic violence, police say.} Zofino Muiuane was arrested after Mrs Guebuza was killed at their home in the capital, Maputo, police said. Mrs Guebuza, 36, is the daughter of Mozambique&#8217;s ex-President Armando Guebuza, who ruled from 2005 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31124"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31124"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}