Donors have again pledged massive support to Mozambique's state budget but lack of progress in implementing the anti-corruption strategy remains a concern. At a recent press conference Deputy Finance Minister Pedro Couto said progress had been made in implementing "some elements" of the strategy, and the government was strengthening the Criminal Investigative Police (PIC) and the Anti-Corruption Unit of the attorney-general's office, the Mozambican news agency, AIM, reported.

On 4 October 2006, Reporters Without Borders published the full report of the fact-finding visit it made to Libya from 13 to 17 September. It was first time the press freedom organisation has been able to go to Libya in 20 years. This in itself is one of the signs of the changes taking place under the "Brother Leader," Muammar Gaddafi.

Roger Mancienne, editor of the privately-owned weekly "Regar" and Secretary-general of the opposition Seychelles National Party (SNP), told Reporters Without Borders he was released on the morning of 4 October 2006, after being held for nearly 24 hours in the central police barracks in Victoria.

Four former Kenyan ministers should be prosecuted for their part in one of the country's biggest corruption scandals involving about $300-million, Kenya's anti-graft body said on Monday (October 2). It did not name names in the statement, which was issued amid mounting political pressure over the slow pace of investigations into the so-called Anglo Leasing affair, which involved state tenders awarded to fictitious firms.

Corruption in relief work is undermining the distribution of aid in developing countries. A report presented at a summit bringing together stakeholders in the sector, reveals how graft is frustrating efforts by donor agencies to provide humanitarian assistance to victims of calamities. "Its effects include the diversion of relief supplies away from affected communities, inequitable distribution of aid and sub-standard infrastructure," says the report by Transparency International.