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Corruption
RSS FeedAfrica: Corruption eroding benefits of health projects
2011-09-19, Issue 549
Corruption is eroding the benefits of good health projects in Africa and governments must look inwards for funding, the World Health Organisation (WHO), has said. In a meeting with African Ministers of Health and Ministers of Finance in Yamoussoukro,...
South Sudan: Change student scholarships after education funds stolen
2011-09-20, Issue 549
South Sudan’s new minister of higher education said during a visit to Uganda that 'a lot of changes' will be made to processes of awarding scholarship to students due to lack of transparency and corruption at his ministry....
Zimbabwe: Mugabe swears in anti-graft commission
2011-09-22, Issue 549
President Robert Mugabe has sworn in Zimbabwe's anti-corruption commission in an effort to stem graft in the southern African country, state media reported....
Africa: Tender accountability/corruption in Southern Africa
2011-09-22, Issue 549
An initiative of the Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa (IFAISA) Initiated by the Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa (IFAISA) (a non-profit association), and organised by Omega Investment Research, this international confer...
Africa: The Queensway syndicate and Africa trade
2011-09-13, Issue 547
An article in The Economist examines how China’s oil trade with Africa is dominated by an opaque syndicate. Ordinary Africans appear to do badly out of its hugely lucrative deals....
Africa: Mobile-mapping corruption
2011-09-15, Issue 547
A new application called Bribespot helps ordinary people report on instances of corruption they witness in their daily lives. According to this piece, users can download a mobile app for Android, which they can then use to submit specific instances o...
Libya: Rebels probe state fund corruption
2011-08-31, Issue 546
A report in the FT states that Libya’s rebels are examining possible corruption at the country’s $65 billion sovereign wealth fund and its links to the family of Colonel Muammer Gaddafi, according the man in charge of the investigation. Mahmoud Badi,...
Nigeria: Anti-graft agency fails to deliver
2011-09-01, Issue 546
Nigeria's anti-graft agency, set up in 2002, was supposed to crack down on corruption in Africa's most populous nation but it has failed to deliver, Human Rights Watch said....
Kenya: Anti-graft boss given week to leave office
2011-09-06, Issue 546
Kenya's anti-corruption chief and his deputies have been given seven days to leave office after lawmakers adopted legislation establishing a revamped anti-graft watchdog enshrined under the new constitution....
Somalia: Corruption, the war on terror hindering food aid to southern Somalia
2011-09-06, Issue 546
An iWatch News report finds that as the famine in southern Somalia worsens, aid experts fear that corruption and the politics of terrorism are crimping the flow of humanitarian relief to areas where starvation is worst. Abundant U.S. aid targeted for...
Nigeria: HRW report: 'Corruption on trial?'
The record of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
2011-09-06, Issue 546
In Human Rights Watch’s newest report, 'Corruption on Trial? The Record of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,' this highly credible NGO takes a break from its more usual investigations into conflict and violence to assess the success...
Global: Jamaica’s ‘Dudus’ Coke: U.S. Government’s statement leading to the guilty plea
2011-09-07, Issue 546
Jamaica’s druglord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, former strongman in the Prime Minister’s political constituency, has pleaded gulity to charges of two counts of racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of ra...
Nigeria: Civil society scores president low
2011-09-08, Issue 546
A civil society organisation in Nigeria has described the performance of the government under President Goodluck Jonathan as inept. The Coalition against Corrupt leaders, a civil society monitoring the performances of government officials says the fi...
Ethiopia: Wikileaks exposes UN Eritrean sanction lies
2011-09-08, Issue 546
Thomas C. Mountain, writing on counterpunch.org, reports that the recently released, and long awaited, Wikileaks Files on Ethiopia expose the lies used to justify UN 'inSecurity' Council Sanctions in force against Eritrea....
South Africa: Youth league president under investigation
2011-08-21, Issue 545
The Hawks confirmed that they were investigating African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema for fraud and corruption, eNews reported on Saturday. 'From the information that we have, we have enough to tell us that we need to do a f...
Libya: WikiLeaks cables detail Qaddafi family’s exploits
2011-08-10, Issue 544
As the Qaddafi clan conducts a bloody struggle to hold onto power in Libya, cables obtained by WikiLeaks offer a vivid account of the lavish spending, rampant nepotism and bitter rivalries that have defined what a 2006 cable called 'Qadhafi Incorpora...
South Africa: Arms deal bombshell
2011-08-01, Issue 542
The Hawks have taken the first step towards re-opening the multibillion-rand arms deal probe - which could expose those who took bribes to prosecution. The head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations, Anwar Dramat, wrote to the Standing...
South Africa: New corruption-busting probe
2011-07-19, Issue 540
Police have been asked to investigate a second complaint of corruption against Willie Hofmeyr, the head of both the Asset Forfeiture Unit and the Special Investigating Unit, the National Prosecuting Authority confirmed on Sunday. NPA spokesman Mthunz...
Africa: Barriers towards combatting corruption in Africa
2011-07-19, Issue 540
Regional and international bodies such as the SADC, AU and UN should make the implementation of anti-corruption instruments by all signatories mandatory. These bodies should specify time frames within which the implementation should be done and sanct...
Tanzania: BAE criticised by UK MPs over Tanzania corruption
2011-07-20, Issue 540
The British arms and aircraft firm BAE Systems has been severely criticised by a UK parliamentary inquiry into a corruption case surrounding an air-traffic-control deal with Tanzania. MPs accused BAE of unilaterally setting up a compensation arrangem...
South Africa: Knives out for corruption busters
2011-07-18, Issue 539
SA's top prosecutors are in a fight to the death over the future of corruption-buster Willie Hofmeyr, who heads the Asset Forfeiture Unit and the Special Investigating Unit. The Sunday Times reports that new corruption claims have been levelled at Ho...
South Africa: Minister's refusal to answer a 'criminal act'
2011-07-18, Issue 539
The refusal of the minister of public works to answer questions on her role in clinching dodgy police lease deals amounts to a criminal offence. This is one of several damning findings in public protector Thuli Madonsela's final report on the police ...
Botswana: Questionable dealings of connected men
2011-07-05, Issue 538
Ian Khama, Botswana's president since 2008, has interests in a premium tourism company that benefited from the controversial relocation of Botswana's Bushmen from their ancestral land to resettlement camps in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Khama is a...
South Africa: Sweden turns up heat on arms deal
2011-07-05, Issue 538
The temperature climbed a few degrees in the arms deal kitchen this week as the Swedish prosecutorial authority directed a seemingly low-key missive to South African counterparts inquiring whether investigations into the defence procurement scandal h...
Kenya: UK pressure for Gichuru, Okemo extradition
2011-07-05, Issue 538
Britain has piled pressure on the government for the extradition of Nambale MP Chris Okemo and former parastatal chief Samuel Gichuru on corruption charges. British High Commissioner to Kenya Rob Macaire said the fraud cases were solid and rejected a...
Egypt: Mubarak ministers cleared of corruption
2011-07-06, Issue 538
An Egyptian court has acquitted three ministers from the toppled regime of Hosni Mubarak of squandering public funds. They were the first not guilty verdicts issued in a series of trials of former senior officials following the fall of Mr Mubarak in ...
Zambia: Millions meant for the poor stolen or missing
2011-07-07, Issue 538
Every year the Zambia government allocates billions of Kwacha for poverty reduction, but much of the money has been stolen or misappropriated. The latest report from the Office of the Auditor General, and a study published by the Civil Society for Po...
Zambia: Money for Chiluba's funeral too much, says Peoples Pact Forum
2011-06-28, Issue 537
Readers of a Zambian Watchdog article are divided over the controversy surrounding the K5-billion that the government has released for the funeral of Fredrick Chiluba. The majority of comments to the article feel that the amount is too much and that ...
Kenya: Smouldering evidence, the Charterhouse banking scandal
2011-07-04, Issue 537
'Smouldering Evidence', AfriCOG’s latest report, examines the Charterhouse Bank Scandal which has received much attention in the media recently and dates back several years. The report documents the scandal and analyses violations of law and criminal...
South Africa: Hawks to reopen arms deal probe?
2011-06-21, Issue 536
The Hawks have stopped short of promising to reopen their investigation into the arms deal following last week's revelations that a R24-million alleged bribe was paid by a weapons dealer to a local 'consultant'. Last week the CEO of Swedish arms manu...
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