Corruption - Page 2
Africa: Quiet corruption harming development
“Quiet corruption” can be just as detrimental to a country’s overall economic growth and development as large corruption and bribery scandals that receive much...
Gabon: Ali Bongo vows to fight corruption
Gabon’s president, Ali Bongo, intends to use his country’s two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council to highlight democratic reforms and his fight...
Togo presidential election fraud denounced
Togo voted Thursday to elect its next president. While politicians and observers have welcomed a peaceful election, fraud has been detected in several neighborhoods...
Southern Sudan fights corrupt officials
Southern Sudan’s Anti- Corruption Commission has issued a declaration to all executive and legislative officials and senior civil servants to disclose all income and...
Cameroonian security agents detain 2 journalists
Security agents in Cameroon have detained two journalists since Friday in an apparent effort to learn the source of a purported memo from the...
Ethiopia: Asset registeration and Anti-corruption bill triggers heated debate
In a bid to stamp out corruption and ensure accountability, a new Ethiopian legislation in its final phase will require senior government officials to...
Zimbabwe: Cabinet ministers under corruption charges
Four cabinet ministers in Zimbabwe's inclusive government are under
probe from their respective parties, MDC and Zanu Pf, on corruption allegations.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC...
Nigeria: Corruption, Different strokes for the President’s men
Corruption charges brought against a former Nigerian Governor, an ally to Nigerian president M. Umaru Yar’ Adua has been dropped, to the dismay of...
Uganda-DR Congo: Soldiers torture and pillage mourners
Authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo are investigating allegations made by a group of over 20 Ugandan mourners, from northern Uganda, that they...
Ghana-Equatorial Guinea: Petrol deals between a democracy and a kleptocracy?
President of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills, recently held bilateral talks with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea. And according to the...
Nigeria: Arrest of prominent politician; Opposition crackdown or justice?
Following the arrest of a leader of a rising opposition party in Nigeria by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the country’s...
Uganda: A history of politically motivated violence, intimidation, bribery
Uganda’s government should reform the country’s election laws to improve accountability for election-related crimes and reduce the risk of violence in the upcoming 2011...
Equatorial Guinea: Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s property
Although definite results were not expected until December 7, the Equatoguinean Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that interim results, given earlier, were almost final. And...
Equatorial Guinea: President dominates state media election coverage, opposition invisible
In the absence of any independent media, Reporters Without Borders condemns the state-owned media's totally one-sided coverage of the
campaign for the 29 November presidential...
When government manipulations thwart anti-corruption campaigns
Newly elected leaders of countries saddled with a reputation for corruption often loudly declare a war on corruption and set up a commission to...
Will Castrating Tyrants Help?
The rest of the world has not got it yet. Many still think that Africa's major problems concern famine, AIDS, conflicts and wars, poverty,...
Time to brand them all: AIDS, Tyrants, Talibans…
There is a time to die and a time to live (in Africa there is always more time to die) but there is also...
Zambia: President Banda backs acquittal of ex-President Chiluba over corruption
Zambian leader Rupiah Banda has disclosed that the unpopular acquittal of former president Frederick Chiluba saved him from misery as he had...
Laughter is the best medicine
Africans may be miserable and subjected to poverty but they are on the whole nice people forever thinking of the welfare of others even...
Nigeria heading towards a failed state…
A cargo ship loaded with weapons and ammunitions from the United States has been confiscated in Lagos, Nigeria. The arms loaded ship has raised...
Paris: New step in “ill-gotten gains” scandal involving 3 African leaders
The Board of Inquiry at the Paris Court of Appeal will issue its decision on whether to open a criminal investigation against three African...
HRW accused of not revealing Anglo-American Corporation diamond theft
Anglo-American Corporation has come under attack from President Mugabe for milking the southern African country of millions of dollars from diamonds as the company...
Kenya: Police chief demoted to Post office chief his deputy now in charge of Livestock Development
Kenyan police chief indicted with impunity and accused of orchestrating much of the killings that took place during the 2007 post election violence, has...
Cameroon: Paul Biya’s holiday bill thirty times more than Barack Obama’s?
Paul Biya, President of Cameroon, is at the centre of a scandal over an unusual and ludicrously costly summer vacation in La Baule, France....
Nigeria: Central Bank still chasing bank defaulters
The Nigerian Banking executives accused of perpetuating banking frauds worth billions of dollars have been put on the stands to defend their roles in...
Nigeria: Korean National Oil accused of fraud
Korean National Oil Company (KNOC) is accused of defrauding the Nigerian government of $231 million, the Nigerian House of Representatives ad hoc Committee has...
Zambia: Chiluba’s acquittal sets high hopes for ex Malawi president’s corruption case
Former Zambian president Fredrick Chiluba has said he has “defeated the devil” and will now demand that his immunity from prosecution be restored. On...
Zambia: Ex President Frederick Chiluba goes home a free man
A court in Zambia has acquitted former Zambia president Frederick Chiluba of all graft charges that where hanging over his head. Magistrate Jones Chinyama...
Zambia: President Chiluba gets weekend grace before prison term?
Former Zambia president Frederick Chiluba whose jail sentence was expected Friday after an unprecedented criminal trial, that should send a shiver down the spines...
Spain Investigates President of Equatorial Guinea for Laundering Oil Money
After thirty years of corrupt rule in Equatorial Guinea, the courts are finally taking a serious look at what the ruling family does with...