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2010-02-05, Issue 468
The Obama administration should adopt recommendations in a report issued to help stop the flow of stolen money into the United States, Human Rights Watch said....
Global: Preventing corruption in humanitarian operations
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations: A Handbook of Good Practices is a timely, practical guide to help aid organisations deal with corruption in day-to-day operations. When people donate money to aid agencies they expect it to reach peop...
Kenya: US suspends school funding
2010-01-29, Issue 467
The US has suspended $7m of funding for free primary schools in Kenya until fraud allegations are investigated, the US ambassador in Nairobi has said. Michael Ranneberger says "credible action" must be taken on claims that 110m shillings (£900,000; $...
Southern Africa: Did De Beers cheat Botswana? – The Masire factor
2010-01-22, Issue 466
When David Magang sat down to write his memoirs, he certainly could not complain that his career had left him short of material. The former Minister of Mineral Resources and Water Affairs, who has waged a protracted battle for diamond beneficiation a...
Morocco: Government renews commitment to eradicating corruption
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Recently-appointed Minister for Public Sector Modernisation Mohammed Saâd Alami has embraced his new position by vowing to curtail corruption in Morocco. Combating corruption "requires much thought from all players, be they the government, official i...
Morocco: MPs must declare assets by May
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Members of Morocco's Parliament must declare their assets by May 2010, as the government implements a law passed in 2008 to govern the conduct of elected officials....
Global: UNESCO delays new prizes after Equatorial Guinea uproar
2010-01-08, Issue 464
UNESCO is suspending a life sciences prize sponsored by Equatorial Guinea, and is to review procedures for prizes it endorses, following bitter protests about the US$3 million endowment. The UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Resear...
Kenya: Five Years On: How effective is the KACC in Kenya’s fight against corruption?
AFRICOG
2009-12-17, Issue 462
Corruption in Kenya has been a challenge since colonial times and the enthusiasm to fight it seems to be diminishing if Kenya’s poor score on the 2009 TI Corruption Perception Index is anything to go by. Kenya now ranks with Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone...
Kenya: Stolen free education funds threatens Kibaki legacy
2009-12-18, Issue 462
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has ordered a probe into the disappearance of millions of shillings meant to finance the free primary school initiative, which attracted over seven million children previously locked out of school....
Nigeria: Court dismisses former governor's money laundering charges
2009-12-18, Issue 462
The former governor of Nigeria's oil-rich Delta State has been cleared of 170 charges of corruption - involving the laundering of millions of dollars. The federal court in Asaba said there was no clear evidence against James Ibori, governor from 1999...
Nigeria: El-Rufai challenges corruption arrest warrant
2009-12-18, Issue 462
An high-profile former Nigerian minister has gone to court to challenge the international arrest warrants issued last week on corruption charges. As a close ally of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Abuja Minister Nasir el-Rufai used to be one o...
Nigeria: Ex-governor Attahiru Bafarawa in fraud raid
2009-12-10, Issue 461
Nigerian anti-corruption officials have raided a meeting of opposition leaders and arrested Attahiru Bafarawa, who ran for president in 2007. The EFCC accuses him of involvement in a 6bn naira ($40m) fraud from his time as governor of Sokoto State....
Africa: Corruption - a crime against development
2009-12-10, Issue 461
Corruption is preventing the world from reducing extreme poverty, from averting child deaths and even from fighting epidemics like HIV/AIDS. And it will have a devastating effect on the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals if not tackled di...
Mauritania: Top businessmen held in bank fraud case
2009-12-11, Issue 461
Mauritanian authorities detained three top businessmen charged with embezzling millions of euros of public funds late on Wednesday in a case that has sparked new political tensions in the desert state....
Angola: Legacy of geopolitics
2009-12-02, Issue 460
As Angola celebrates 34 years of independence on 11 November, Khadija Sharife looks at the legacy of war, oil and geopolitics in a country where the future of its chief export, oil, has already been mortgaged....
Kenya: Corrupt elite "under threat"
2009-12-05, Issue 460
In his Kenya diary, Guardian journalist Xan Rice reports on how a decision by the prosecutor of the international criminal court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, to investigate the 2008 post-election violence in Kenya threatens the corrupt elite....
West Africa: Nigeria uncovers $15.3 million scam in schools fees
2009-12-06, Issue 460
Nigeria’s External Affairs ministry has uncovered $15.3 million of school fees racket allegedly perpetrated by some Nigerian diplomats. Minister Ojo Maduekwe said investigations were on, to determine the perpetrators, but vowed that those found culpa...
Angola: Government to name officials involved in graft
2009-11-27, Issue 459
Angola will name Treasury and Finance Ministry officials involved in the illegal transfer of government funds abroad after concluding investigations in 45 days, a prosecutor has said....
West Africa: Sierra Leone acts tough on corrupt investors
2009-11-20, Issue 458
Sierra Leone’s anti-corruption commissioner has a simple message for foreign investors coming to his country for its mines and oil — offer bribes and you could find yourself in prison....
Zimbabwe: Corruption index changes positively
2009-11-20, Issue 458
Transparency International’s popular annual Corruption Perception Index commonly known as the CPI was launched on 17 November 2009. Zimbabwe’s score moved up as Zimbabwe became number 146 along with Cameroon, Ecuador, Kenya, Russia, Sierra Leone and ...
Nigeria: EU lends support in fighting corruption
2009-11-20, Issue 458
Nigeria has signed a 677 million euro pact with the European Union aimed at combating corruption and promoting peace in its troubled, oil-producing Niger Delta region....
Gabon: Presidential aide quits in financial scandal
2009-11-13, Issue 457
A crony of the newly-elected Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, has been forced to resign from the government due to a magazine report that links him to a financial scandal. Mr Jean Pierra Oyiba who is President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s Chief of Protoc...
Kenya: Attorney General confirms his US ban
2009-11-06, Issue 456
Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako confirmed Wednesday November 4th 2009 that he is banned from travelling to the United States and announced his intention to sue for defamation....
Nigeria: Ruling party backs corruption conviction of top member
2009-11-06, Issue 456
Seeking to minimise the perceived damage done to it by the recent conviction of one of its top members, Bode George, Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has endorsed the conviction. George, a former deputy national chairman of the PDP, wa...
Global: 141 governments for decisive meeting on corruption
2009-11-06, Issue 456
As a key United Nations meeting approaches involving 141 countries, governments are deadlocked about meaningful monitoring of their compliance with the United Nations Anti-Corruption Convention. The meeting will be held in Doha, Qatar on 9-13 Novembe...
Global: France halts African leaders case
2009-10-30, Issue 455
A French appeals court has halted a lawsuit against three African leaders accused of embezzlement. Anti-corruption group Transparency International had accused the leaders of using African public funds to buy luxury homes and cars in France....
West Africa: Senegal admits "money gift" to IMF official
2009-10-30, Issue 455
Senegal has admitted that it gave a "money gift" to an International Monetary Fund official earlier this month at the end of his three-year posting, citing an African tradition of offering goodbye presents. The gift, which the IMF said amounted to 10...
Angola: Jail terms for 'Angola-gate' guilty
2009-10-30, Issue 455
Arkadi Gaydamak, a Russian-born Israeli businessman and Pierre Falcone, his French associate, have been sentenced to six-year jail terms for organising the illegal trafficking of weapons to Angola....
Global: Launch: Corruption Perceptions Index 2009
2009-10-23, Issue 454
Transparency International, the leading civil society organisation fighting corruption worldwide, will release its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on 17 November 2009. The index ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of corruption, a...
Kenya: Statement on Kibaki letter to Obama
The Partnership for Change
2009-10-01, Issue 450
The Kibaki administration is ruffled by the United States Government latest actions on Kenya and it has nothing to do with travel bans. Money is at stake and the soft underbelly of the regime is exposed. Although it touts itself as financially self-r...
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