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Corruption
RSS FeedNigeria: Bribery charges filed against Dick Cheney
2010-12-08, Issue 509
Nigeria has filed charges against former US Vice-President Dick Cheney over a scandal involving a former subsidiary of Halliburton energy firm. The case, brought by the country's anti-corruption agency, centres on engineering firm KBR, which admitted...
Zimbabwe: WikiLeaks documents show illicit diamond deals
2010-12-09, Issue 509
The illicit diamond trade in Zimbabwe has led to the murder of thousands, enriched those close to President Robert Mugabe and been financed in part by the central bank, according to US documents on WikiLeaks. In the classified documents that date fro...
Mali: Graft pauses Mali health aid
2010-12-13, Issue 509
Three projects fighting malaria and tuberculosis in Mali have seen their international funding suspended as government found 'evidence of misappropriation and unjustified expenditure'. This was reported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis ...
Kenya: Reporting tax research
2010-11-30, Issue 508
This case study describes some of the methods and activities developed by the Relay programme, which provides training and facilitates relationship-building among key stakeholders to support more in-depth, research-informed media coverage of complex,...
Kenya: US had KACC dossier on banned state officials
2010-11-24, Issue 507
The US Government has finally given the names of the four top Government officials and a prominent businessman banned from setting foot in the US over drug trafficking. At the same time, US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger handed over 'crucial...
Southern Africa: Corruption by traffic police officers and vehicle drivers in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe
2010-11-18, Issue 505
A researcher from the Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-Southern Africa) traveled by road in public transport from Namibia (Windhoek) to Zimbabwe (Harare) via Botswana through the Mamuno border post. The journey to and fro Zimbabwe was an eye-opener on the nature and extent of corruption bedeviling traffic police officers in the three countries. In a nutshell, the following findings were made:...
Kenya: Anti-graft agency targets 80 top officials
2010-11-09, Issue 504
The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating up to 80 politicians and top government officials in the intensified war against corruption. Those targeted by detectives include Cabinet ministers, past and present permanent secretaries and para...
South Africa: UK Audit firm launches new arms deal probe
2010-11-09, Issue 504
South African politicians and businessmen who pocketed R1-billion from the arms deal are set to be named in a new investigation by Britain's auditing watchdog. The Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board (AADB) is to investigate KPMG, which advise...
Zimbabwe: Civil society group probes tax regime
2010-11-09, Issue 504
The African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (Afrodad) is undertaking research to critically evaluate Zimbabwe’s tax system to determine its role and impact on the development agenda. The move comes against the backdrop of reports that the c...
Africa: French appeals court reopens assets case
2010-11-10, Issue 504
France's highest appeals court has authorised judges to proceed with an investigation into assets held in the country by three African leaders. The anti-corruption group Transparency International has accused the three of using African public funds t...
Zimbabwe: Corruption impedes right to an identity
2010-11-03, Issue 503
Getting a passport can be vital for making a living but mounting hidden costs are making it tougher to access one, despite the government recently slashing passport fees. Fees have been reduced from US$140 to $50, but the document can cost up to $120...
Kenya: Nairobi mayor arrested over Sh283m graft case
2010-10-26, Issue 502
Nairobi Mayor Geophrey Majiwa was on Monday arrested by anti-corruption agents over the controversial purchase of a piece of land for use as a cemetery. Officials from the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (Kacc) went to the mayor's residence in Nairo...
Mozambique: Mozambique budget transparency: are the wrong questions asked?
2010-10-26, Issue 502
Mozambique has scored poorly in this year's edition of the Open Budget Index (OBI) - but when the report was presented at a Maputo seminar on Thursday, dissenting voices wondered whether the scores mean anything, since the questionnaires used seemed ...
Kenya: Minister steps aside over embassy allegations
2010-10-28, Issue 502
Kenya's foreign minister has stepped aside amid a growing scandal involving the alleged misuse of his ministry's funds for several land deals abroad. Moses Wetangula, who maintains his innocence, made his announcement as MPs were set to vote on his s...
Zimbabwe: Piercing the corporate veil
2010-10-21, Issue 501
Mugabe Inc. has once again, in anticipation of forthcoming elections, vigorously begun to engage in exploitation through 'primitive accumulation' of resources via war vets, corrupt corporate execs and political cronies, writes Khadija Sharife in this...
Zambia: CSOs back extractive industries initiative
2010-10-13, Issue 500
Civil society organisations in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region have resolved to support the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Zambia. Countries implementing EITI committed themselve...
Nigeria: British banks complicit in Nigerian corruption, court documents reveal
2010-10-13, Issue 500
British high street banks have accepted millions of pounds in deposits from corrupt Nigerian politicians, raising serious questions about their commitment to tackling financial crime, warned Global Witness in a report published today. By taking money...
Malawi: While the president flies, the people queue for fuel
2010-10-13, Issue 500
Fuel has become so precious in Malawi that it is now being rationed. People park their vehicles at service stations overnight, forming long queues as they wait for petrol tankers to arrive. The Council for Non-Governmental Organisations in Malawi (Co...
Global: Paying the costs of corruption
2010-10-05, Issue 499
This blog post reports on a meeting in Prague hosted by the International Bar Association (IBA). One of the issues raised was that of developing countries taking action against foreign companies, as evidenced by in the case of the Lesotho Highlands W...
Tanzania: Poll abuse probe almost complete
2010-09-28, Issue 498
The Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) is finalising investigations on ten corruption cases involving people who participated in Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CM) opinion polls recently. The PCCB boss, Dr Edward Hoseah, said the cases would ...
Global: Civil society to engage World Bank on transparency and sustainability
2010-09-30, Issue 498
The World Bank and IMF will hold their 2010 Annual General Meetings (AGM) and the accompanying Civil Society Policy Forum in Washington, DC, between 6 -10 October. Civil society will be sponsoring and participating in several events on issues ranging...
Mozambique: Examining aid and budget transparency
2010-09-22, Issue 497
External donors contributed some US$1.6 billion in aid to the government of Mozambique in 2009. These donors have all committed to making aid more effective by adhering to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and to the Accra Agenda for Action....
Nigeria: Ribadu warns elite on corruption
2010-09-23, Issue 497
Nigeria's former corruption fighter Nuhu Ribadu has said no-one will be safe from prosecution if he is elected president next year. The elections have been set for January but may be postponed. Election officials, who have asked for a delay, however ...
Global: TI calls for MDG transparency
2010-09-16, Issue 496
Transparency International (TI) has warned that the failure by governments to address corruption is threatening the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In a news release, TI called on governments, donors and non-governmental organ...
Angola: Ruling party to look into graft allegations
2010-08-13, Issue 494
Angola's ruling party will meet this week to examine a private report accusing members of the president's inner circle of corruption, a spokesman has said. The report, "The Angolan Presidency -- The Epicentre of Corruption", describes how people clos...
South Africa: Selebi gets 15 years
2010-08-06, Issue 493
South Africa's stop-start war on corruption claimed its biggest success yesterday as the country's former leading policeman was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Jackie Selebi was told by a judge that he was "an embarrassment to all right-thinking cit...
Benin: Four ex-ministers may be tried for corruption
2010-07-30, Issue 492
Four former Beninese Ministers may be tried at the country's High Court of Justice for corruption charges, according to a request for indictment from President Boni Yayi to the National Assembly. The Ministers include two former allies of President Y...
East Africa: Rwanda has negligible corruption - Transparency
2010-07-22, Issue 491
Incidents of bribery in Rwanda are negligible, anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International says. Rwanda, which has been striving to rebuild itself following the 1994 genocide, was by far the least corrupt country in East Africa. Rwanda and it...
East Africa: Burundi most corrupt bribe index shows
2010-07-22, Issue 491
Burundi is east Africa's most corrupt nation according to an anti-graft watchdog, while Kenya, which usually tops Transparency International's (TI) annual list of graft-prone countries in the region, was third. Burundi and neighbouring Rwanda were in...
Kenya: Defiant MPs stay put to demand more pay
2010-07-09, Issue 489
Anger against the push by MPs to increase their pay was on Thursday written on the faces of these Kenyans demonstrating outside Parliament. But inside the Chamber, the people’s representatives were unmoved in their resolve for more pay and refused to...
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