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Nigeria: Suspicions over rebel disarmament fund embezzlement mount
The Nigerian government has offered to pay repentant rebels of the Niger Delta, N20,000 ($135) every month, and N1,500 ($ 9) a day for...
Swiss court approves African kleptocracy: Mobutu’s loot to go to his family
Chairman of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, Mark Pieth raised an appeal against a...
British company charged with bribing Ghanaian and Jamaican officials between ’94 and 2001 to set precedence
The case of Mabey & Johnson – which makes bridges based on the portable Bailey crossing used by Allied troops during the second world...
Cameroon-France: President Paul Biya enters corruption hall of shame
The Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (CCFD Terre solidaire) Wednesday published a new study highlighting the embezzlement of public funds by heads...
Fight against corruption: The world Bank will “hold people accountable if they steal from the poor”
Glance at any set of headlines and you will likely read about allegations of corrupt activities to the north, south, east or west. Donors...
Nigeria: Reform for world’s most corrupt police force?
The Nigerian Police force has issued a white paper with about 79 recommendations for the improvement of the force, but the big question here...
3 African Presidents to pay for their ill-gotten wealth
The doyen of judges in the financial hub of Paris, Françoise Desset, has ordered a judicial inquiry into the luxury property bought by three...
Nigeria: Rioting soldiers get life, corrupt officers go free?
27 former Nigerian United Nations Peacekeepers soldiers who sought compensation for the delay in the payment of their benefits have been convicted of mutiny...
Ethiopia: New bill puts corruption under high surveillance
A draft proclamation targetting the wealth registration of high ranking officials of the Ethiopian government, including the political neutral President of the country, the...
It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower
These are hard times for anti-corruption campaigners, and harder still in Africa where activists face harassment and sometimes death. According to United Nations and...
US firms fined $579m in Nigerian bribery case
Kellogg, Brown & Root, the engineering, construction, and services company, and its former parent, Halliburton, have agreed to pay a combined $579m to settle...
US company charged on Nigerian corruption case
Employees of Halliburton Inc., a United States energy services group, after an intensive investigation have been charged with acts of bribing Nigerian officials.
The investigation...
Mugabe’s government officials arrested for fraud
A Zanu-PF senator has been arrested in an agricultural inputs scam in which they are said to have defrauded the state of more than...
Kenyan tourism chief’s frightful ‘Shs 100million’ theft
Kenya Tourist Board (KTB) Managing Director, Dr. Ong'ong'a Achieng, was sacked late Tuesday as the country's authorities intensified the anti-corruption fight.
Dr. Achieng, who headed...
Nigeria: Corrupt ex-minister escapes to US school
Nasir el-Rufai, ex-minister for the federal capital Abuja, who is wanted for allegedly misappropriating $246m (£167m), has locked himself away in the USA.
The indicted...
Nigerian opposition favours corruption immunity
President Umaru Yar'Adua's proposal for the removal of an immunity clause from the Nigerian Constitution has been met with a stumbling block following a...
Nigerian President to ban immunity for corrupt officials
In the clearest indication yet that his administration is committed to the fight against corruption, Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua Wednesday asked the National Assembly...
Nigeria’s ex anti-corruption czar a victim of corruption?
The disciplinary committee of the Nigeria police has recommended the dismissal from the force of the country's embattled former anti-corruption czar, Nuhu Ribadu, over...
When rich countries compete for corruption
Companies based in emerging economic giants, such as China, India and Russia, are perceived to routinely engage in bribery when doing business abroad, according...
Mugabe accused of stealing international group’s money
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has given the Robert Mugabe regime up to Thursday to pay back millions of dollars...
Several Chinese arrested for flouting currency regulations
A Chinese businessman in Namibia is in danger of losing the equivalent of more than N$4,5 million to the State after he pleaded guilty...
Ex governor charged for supplying chickens at about US $100 each
A former governor of Nigeria's northern Kebbi state, Adamu Aliero, has been charged to court over a contract for the supply of 9,422 chickens...
Corruption, ethnicism, weak electoral process bane of African democracy
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has identified corruption, ethnicism, weak leadership and non-participatory electoral process as the bane of democracy in Africa.
While saying democracy...
Strikes, salary arrears, price hikes, bribes freeze Guinea Bissau
The National Union of Guinea-Bissauan Workers (UNTG) has declared a three-day strike; nurses, doctors and civil servants, have been striking over salary sums unpaid,...
Oil rich Equitorial Guinea : Corrupt and abysmally poor
Despite the wells of oil that abound in Equatorial Guinea, majority of its population still live in abject poverty, a common phenomena with oil-rich...
Corruption perception index rates in Ghana better but …
Ghana has performed better on the corruption perception index but an anti-corruption campaigner said this is not encouraging, nearly eight years after President John...
Uganda calls for transperency in public offices
As part of a wider effort to fight corruption, Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo during a Presidential Affairs Committee announced that all...
Military colonel openly threatens to kill journalist
On 13 August 2008, Jean-Christophe Houngho, parliamentary
correspondent of "Le Matinal", a privately-owned daily newspaper,
complained to the journalists' union that his life is in danger.
Houngho...
US businessman goes to jail over Nigerian bribery charges
A seven-year prison sentence and a fine of $10.9m, has been handed a former chief executive, Albert Stanley, of US construction firm KBR who...
The dilemma of the Niger-Delta
We have no drinking water, it is polluted with oil. Our Crops cannot grow; the soil is soaked with oil. Fishermen and farmers have...