Mozambique’s president is likely to have reversed the appointment of Waldemar Fernando de Sousa as governor of the central bank after a public outcry over his alleged links to the country’s hidden debts scandal, a prominent Mozambican human rights activist has said.

Speaking to Central Banking, Adriano Nuvunga, an academic who serves as director of not-for-profit organisation the Centre for Democracy and Development, says the accusations against de Sousa are “well known”, and that under