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2012-01-25, Issue 567
The IMF said on Tuesday a $32 billion accounting discrepancy in Angola's state funds was linked to 'quasi-fiscal operations' by state oil firm Sonangol done on the government's behalf, but not recorded in official budget accounts. 'Preliminary data i...
Swaziland: Perks of Swazi politicians exposed
2012-01-29, Issue 567
Trade unions are gearing up to advance their fight against the Swaziland regime and the greed of the politicians who voted themselves payoffs and perks worth millions of US dollars. Protestors want the Finance Circular No 1 2010 that authorised the p...
South Africa: R20bn of public cash wasted
2012-01-17, Issue 566
The Auditor-General’s audited results of government and provincial departments and public entities have painted a picture of huge amounts of public funds being misused by departments and public entities. More than R20 billion spent by national and pr...
Rwanda: Rural Rwandan communities fight corruption
2012-01-18, Issue 566
Often, victims of corruption find it difficult to step forward and report, particularly citizens in countries where infrastructure, public transport or uneasy internet access means they have to travel far from their home towns to make a report. Trans...
Nigeria: The mystery of the missing fuel
2012-01-19, Issue 566
The ad-hoc committee investigating the petroleum subsidies saga continues to unravel one bombshell after the other. The lastest discovery is that Nigeria over-imported petrol on a daily basis to the tune of 24 million litres in 2011. The difference b...
Angola: $32 bn vanishes from oil-rich Angola's state coffers
2012-01-10, Issue 565
A staggering $32 billion is missing from the state coffers of Angola, a nation that is steeped in poverty, blatant social inequality, and among the worst-ranked in the world for its life expectancy, infant mortality and corruption. New York-based Hum...
Nigeria: Billions lost to corruption could be used for fuel subsidy
2012-01-16, Issue 565
As a nationwide strike and protests against the lifting of the fuel subsidy paralysed Nigeria last week, analysts say the billions of dollars a year lost to corruption in the oil industry could have been used to leave the subsidy in place. 'We know t...
Uganda: UK, US snub ad hoc oil probe committee
2011-12-13, Issue 563
The United States Ambassador to Uganda, Mr Jerry Lanier, and the UK High Commissioner, Mr Martin Shearman, have snubbed calls to appear before the parliamentary ad hoc committee investigating the oil sector, the Daily Monitor has learnt. In October, ...
Sierra Leone: 'Timbergate' threatens president poll bid
2011-12-14, Issue 563
A corruption scandal in Sierra Leone could damage President Ernest Bai Koroma's chances of re-election next year and undermine his attempts to rebrand the West African state. Last month a television documentary investigating illegal logging alleged b...
Angola: Explain missing government funds
2011-12-21, Issue 563
The government of Angola should promptly provide a full public accounting for US$32-billion in missing government funds thought to be linked to the state oil company, Human Rights Watch said. A December 2011 report by the International Monetary Fund ...
Mozambique: Mozambique most corrupt in region
2011-12-12, Issue 562
Mozambique is the most corrupt country in southern Africa, with 68 per cent of people having paid a bribe in the past year, according to a survey by Transparency International and Gallup. More than a third of those using health services or education ...
Kenya: Mutunga exposes fraud in courts
2011-11-30, Issue 560
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has revealed corruption at the heart of the judiciary and ordered a stop to construction of court buildings until an audit is done. He took journalists on a tour of the Milimani courts, opened only in February, but which h...
Tanzania: Tanzania urged to take action over BAE bribery claim
2011-11-30, Issue 560
A cross-party parliamentary group is urging the Tanzanian government to prosecute those guilty of corruption or bribery over the sale of a BAE Systems air traffic control package. The company, despite not being found guilty of corruption, has agreed ...
South Africa: Mac's dodgy millions
2011-11-22, Issue 559
Jacob Zuma's spokesman Mac Maharaj stands accused of receiving millions in bribes from French weapons maker Thales, the company that will be at the centre of the government's arms deal inquiry next year. A two-month Sunday Times investigation has unc...
DRC: State mining company refuses to release info on contracts
2011-11-22, Issue 559
Gecamines, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-owned copper miner, rejected a directive by the government and International Monetary Fund to publish its mining contracts because any disclosure may result in legal action, reports Bloomberg. In Ma...
Global: Cizens ask governments to make budgets open
2011-11-24, Issue 559
On 18 November 2011 nearly 100 civil society groups from as many countries and 12 international organisations, including the International Budget Partnership, Greenpeace, and the ONE Campaign, launched a global effort to make public budgets transpare...
Uganda: New details in oil bribes inquiry
2011-11-24, Issue 559
The lead petitioners in the ongoing oil sector probe have tabled what they said was more evidence implicating the three ministers accused of taking bribes from oil firms. Testifying before the House ad hoc committee, they presented letters linking Mi...
Tanzania: UK cuts aid budget
2011-11-24, Issue 559
Tanzania’s government could be headed for hot soup following announcements that the British government will be cutting aid due to corruption. According to reports the Tanzanian government should brace for a cut of up to 30 per cent of United Kingdom ...
Southern Africa: SADC protocol against corruption idles
2011-11-09, Issue 557
The ninth Southern African Forum Against Corruption (Safac) annual general meeting which took place in Windhoek made an urgent call on SADC members to implement the SADC Protocol Against Corruption. Safac chair Dr Edward Hoseah blamed the non-functio...
DRC: Mining transparency site launched
2011-11-01, Issue 556
A website has been launched to promote transparency in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mining sector, which is plagued by conflict and corruption. The Carter Center said it helped launch congomines.org to give people more information about the min...
Nigeria: 'Companies from emerging giants China and Russia most likely to bribe abroad'
2011-11-02, Issue 556
Bribing public officials when doing business abroad is a regular occurrence, and companies from Russia and China, which invested US$120 billion overseas in 2010, are seen as most likely to pay bribes abroad, according to Transparency International’s ...
Global: Promised transparency measures must be enforced to have real impact, says Transparency
2011-11-07, Issue 556
The Group of 20 leading economies (G20) have called on 11 secrecy jurisdictions to substantially increase their cooperation on tackling tax evasion, but failed to address the main users of tax havens by not committing to mandatory country-by-country ...
East Africa: Burundi most corrupt country, says corruption index
2011-10-25, Issue 554
Burundi has retained the top position as the most bribery prone country in East Africa, according to the East African Bribery Index 2011. Burundi has a bribery prevalence level of 37.9 per cent up from 36.7 per cent in 2010, while Uganda and Tanzania...
Equatorial Guinea: US seeks $70m from African official
2011-10-26, Issue 554
Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, a government minister in the West African county, used his position to siphon millions of dollars for his own personal use, authorities said in two civil forfeiture complaints filed in US District Court in Los Angeles an...
South Africa: Zuma 'needs time' to decide on Cele and Shiceka
2011-10-18, Issue 553
President Jacob Zuma needs more time to decide if any remedial action will be taken against Minister of Cooperative and Traditional Affairs Sicelo Shiceka and national police commissioner General Bheki Cele. On Monday, Zuma's spokesperson Mac Maharaj...
Zambia: Ex-Zambia president denies gold, car scams
2011-10-18, Issue 553
Zambia’s former president Rupiah Banda has spoken out for the first time since leaving office three weeks ago, denying links to a gold scam and purchase of luxury vehicles....
Equatorial Guinea: Luxury cars seized
2011-10-19, Issue 553
On 28 September, French authorities seized 11 luxury cars belonging to the family of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema as part of an ongoing corruption investigation, reports www.egjustice.org 'The seizures are part ...
Kenya: Report on transnational organised crime in Kenya
2011-10-11, Issue 552
Transnational criminal networks are corrupting and undermining state institutions in some countries to such an extent that they pose a threat to the state itself, according to two new reports from the International Peace Institute (IPI) made public o...
Uganda: Ex-VP Bukenya granted bail pending trial
2011-10-11, Issue 552
Former Vice President Gilbert Bukenya has been granted bail pending trial, after spending a week on remand. Bukenya is charged with abuse of office for his role in the award of a deal worth Shs9.4b to supply 204 executive vehicles four years ago duri...
Uganda: Oil bubble bursts
2011-10-11, Issue 552
A Uganda MP submitted a document that pointed a finger at several ministers, including Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, as having pocketed billions of shillings in commissions as the House opened a stormy debate on what they called the 'shameless corrup...
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