Issa G. Shivji (2009) Where is Uhuru?.
Corruption
RSS FeedAfrica: Kenya most corrupt country in East Africa, says poll
2009-07-03, Issue 440
A survey by an anti-graft watchdog has found Kenya east Africa's most graft-prone nation with a bribe expected or solicited in nearly half of all transactions, followed by Uganda and Tanzania. The inaugural East Africa Bribery Index, according to Reu...
Liberia: Aid workers 'stole $1m'
2009-06-05, Issue 436
A US-based international Christian relief organisation says it believes more than 90% of its aid to Liberia went missing in a massive fraud scam. World Vision's Vice-President Geoff Ward told the BBC the losses came to more than $1m and pledged to ma...
Global: World Bank Corruption
2009-05-29, Issue 435
The International Development Association (IDA), the arm of the World Bank that makes grants and interest-free, long-term loans to poor countries around the world, lacks effective safeguards against corruption, according to a report by the Bank's own...
Zambia: Health funding frozen after corruption alleged
2009-05-29, Issue 435
Foreign aid for government health projects in Zambia, where most of the national health budget is donor-funded, was frozen last week after allegations of corruption. The governments of the Netherlands and Sweden announced they had suspended aid after...
Kenya: Youth Fund chief fired
2009-05-22, Issue 433
Kenyan authorities Wednesday sacked the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF), Umuro Wario, citing graft. But insiders were quick to point out that Wario was a victim of boardroom politics. Wario’s sacking was effect...
Nigeria: $450m of Abacha's loot missing
2009-05-22, Issue 433
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has declared in Abuja that about $450 million out of the over $3 billion alleged to have been stolen by the late Head of State of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha, could not be traced....
Global: Auditing aid providers - how do they fare?
2009-05-22, Issue 433
Aid agencies are far more accountable to disaster affected people than they were a decade ago, says the latest Humanitarian Accountability Report, but problems remain in transparency about interventions, communication with aid recipients, monitoring ...
Nigeria: MP panel in fraud charge
2009-05-15, Issue 432
Members of the Nigerian National Assembly in charge of investigating the country's electricity crisis have been charged with fraud. The 10 MPs denied charges of siphoning off $42m (£27m) of public funds in a hearing that stretched over two days....
Global: Blow to the World Bank
2009-05-08, Issue 431
A third of the World Bank’s support for health, nutrition and population programmes over the past decade has been unsatisfactory, the multilateral agency’s own evaluation unit has concluded. Out of $17bn (€12.9bn, £11.5bn) in support to countries, on...
Africa: Lawsuit on Africa leaders 'valid'
2009-05-08, Issue 431
A French magistrate has ruled that a lawsuit against three African leaders accused of embezzlement is admissible. Presidents Omar Bongo of Gabon, Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Republic of Congo and Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea deny any wrongd...
Global: Transparency violations common theme for World Bank Inspection Panel
2009-05-08, Issue 431
The World Bank's Inspection Panel Annual Report highlights the problem of access to information within several World Bank-financed projects. Many of the cases brought to the World Bank’s Inspection Panel (IP) for review concern allegations of a lack ...
Africa: Three Africa leaders to account for wealth in France
2009-04-30, Issue 430
Presidents of oil-producing African countries who are close allies of France are not used to questions being asked about their luxury cars or their homes in chic parts of Paris, but that is changing fast. French anti-corruption activists are trying t...
Zimbabwe: Zanu PF in currency scandal
2009-04-30, Issue 430
In every country, bank notes carry unique serial numbers which are never reapeated, except, it seems, in Zimbabwe. Dealers in the USA, Germany and South Africa who sell pristine-quality paper money to collectors are turning up Zimbabwe dollar notes w...
Burundi: FBI to help unravel murder of anti-graft czar
2009-04-24, Issue 429
Agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are expected in Burundi to take part in investigations into the unresolved assassination of the Vice-President of the Observatory to Fight Corruption and Economic Malfeasance (OLUCOME), Ernest Ma...
Kenya: 'It's our turn to eat'
2009-04-24, Issue 429
Michela Wrong’s latest book “It’s Our Turn to Eat: the Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower” has stirred controversy in Kenya. Through the struggles of anti-corruption whistleblower John Githongo, Wrong examines how corruption has plagued the country. Tra...
Zimbabwe: Hypocrisy over Reserve Bank cars exposed
2009-04-24, Issue 429
The battle between the Ministry of Finance and Reserve Bank over the allocation of cars to MPs has left ministers open to charges of hypocrisy by the legislators as they have more than two vehicles each while trying to block their colleagues in parli...
Burundi: Find killers of anti-corruption activist
2009-04-17, Issue 428
The Burundian authorities should ensure a speedy, independent, and thorough investigation into the killing on April 9 of prominent anti-corruption activist Ernest Manirumva, Human Rights Watch has said. The investigation should lead to the prosecutio...
South Africa: Zuma graft decision due on Monday
2009-04-03, Issue 426
South African prosecutors say they will announce on Monday whether they will drop corruption charges against African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma. South Africa media has been full of speculation that the charges will be dropped but a prosecuti...
Guinea: Ex-ministers repay money
2009-04-03, Issue 426
Guinea's military authorities have released three former ministers after they agreed to repay money they are accused of embezzling. The three, who include former Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare, were arrested last week. They have already repaid t...
Guinea-Bissau: Army 'beats ex-PM'
2009-04-03, Issue 426
Guinea-Bissau's former Prime Minister Francisco Jose Fadul is recovering in hospital after being beaten by people dressed as soldiers. Mr Fadul said 15 armed men in uniform had raided his house, assaulting him and his wife and stealing computers, pho...
Zimbabwe: MDC ministers accept official Mercedes cars
2009-04-03, Issue 426
All but one of Zimbabwe's ministers from the former opposition has accepted an official Mercedes Benz. When they were in opposition MDC politicians condemned the profligacy of Mr Mugabe’s Mercedes Benz-mobilised Zanu PF party. Last September, when th...
Africa: Mining companies accused of tax dodges
2009-03-26, Issue 425
Mining companies routinely deprive African countries of huge amounts of tax revenue that could be used to combat poverty, a new report reveals. Breaking the Curse: How Transparent Taxation and Fair Taxes can Turn Africa’s Mineral Wealth into Developm...
Guniea: Fighting impunity with impunity
2009-03-27, Issue 425
The National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD), led by military junta head Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, arrested three former ministers of the late President Lansana Conté on 23 March for allegedly embezzling national funds, but human righ...
Zimbabwe: TI-Zimbabwe castigates corruption at Harare City Council
2009-03-20, Issue 424
The Transparency International Zimbabwe is greatly disturbed by the reports of massive corruption rocking Harare City Council. Consequently, we urgently call for a forensic audit to determine the magnitude of the rot that has dogged the Town House to...
Kenya: Do Kenyans trust the Grand Coalition?
2009-03-20, Issue 424
The Grand Coalition Government in Kenya seems to be losing the war against corruption. In the wake of widespread starvation and rising costs of living, TI-Kenya’s National Corruption Perceptions Survey shows that many Kenyans believe the government h...
Guinea Ecuatorial: EU banks named in dirty money report
2009-03-13, Issue 423
Europe's biggest banks are happy to do business with corrupt regimes in Africa and Central Asia, according to a new report by UK-based NGO, Global Witness. As late as November 2007, Barclays in Paris held a private account for Teodorin Obiang, the st...
Malawi: Muluzi appears in court
2009-03-13, Issue 423
Former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi appeared in the High Court in Blantyre on Thursday, but his lawyers asked for more time before the 66-year-old politician could take a plea. One of Muluzi's lawyers, Kalekeni Kaphale, told the presiding judge, Ju...
Nigeria: Ex-governor is arrested
2009-03-06, Issue 422
A former state governor in Nigeria, Olusegun Agagu, has been arrested by anti-corruption investigators. Mr Agagu is a leading member of the governing People's Democratic Party. He is suspected of embezzling millions of dollars of public funds, say of...
Zambia: Tough war against corruption
2009-03-06, Issue 422
Zambia is to intensify its corruption fight which is aimed at prosecuting all those who plundered and mismanaged public funds. Vice president George Kunda who is also justice minister said Zambia is governed by tenets of laws and that no person wheth...
Africa: Graft in Africa: Where does the buck stop?
2009-02-27, Issue 421
Corruption is an endemic cancer that has devastated African societies and impoverished millions. According to the Africa Union (AU) around $148 billion are stolen from the continent by its leaders and civil servants every year. The 2006 Forbes’ list ...
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