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Nigeria gets help from donors to fight rising corruption
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has received funding totalling $40m from a variety of donor agencies to fund its operations, Head of...
Zimbabwe: Promotion of democracy banned
Strict operating procedures for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in Zimbabwe have been introduced since a ban on their operations was lifted, but pro-democracy organisations...
President of Sierra Leone comes clean
President Ernest Bai Koroma has declared his assets to the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission. He becomes the first Head of state in Sierra Leone to...
Kenya anti-corruption chief back home with his whistle
John Githongo, Kenya’s former anti-corruption chief, has said the country’s fragile coalition government will succeed only if it tackles graft, as he returned home...
President accused of nepotism detrimental to national education
Malawi president Binguwa Mutharika has refuted an article in Thursday's edition of the Daily Times which alleged that the 2007 Malawi School Certificate of...
Zuma says he is ‘prepared to die’ as legal hearings begin
A calm and relaxed Jacob Zuma, South Africa's ruling party chief Jacob Zuma sat in the accused’s dock in the Pietermaritzburg High Court yesterday,...
Zuma’s corruption trial grips international press
This week's Constitutional Court ruling, removing the biggest legal obstacle to the corruption trial of African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma rocked South...
Corruption still high during humanitarian interventions
Humanitarian agencies should work harder and more closely together to minimise various forms of corruption that can affect the delivery of emergency aid and...
Nigeria and UK cooperation to fight oil theft could face opposition from corrupt officials
Britain and Nigeria will be seeking ways to tackle one of the fastest growing criminal rackets in the world, the industrial-scale theft of Nigerian...
Ghanaian lawmakers tighten screws on corruption
Ghanaian lawmakers on Wednesday turned their attention to strict assets declaration by public office holders as they seek how to tighten the screws on...
Prime Minister Odinga should resign, says MP
Kenyan parliamentarians Tuesday asked Prime Minister Raila Odinga to resign over the sale of a five-star hotel, but the call forced the Speaker to...
G8 : Playing neatly into the hands of corrupt leaders …
In the runup to the Group of Eight meeting in Japan last week, activists of all stripes were working hard to ensure that their...
Kenyan Finance Minister caught in hotel scandal finally resigns
Kenya's embattled Finance Minister Amos Kimunya resigned on Tuesday amid pressure over his handling of the sale of a five-star hotel. The resignation came...
Kimunya says he won’t resign, confused Kibaki remains silent
Kenya's embattled Finance Minister, Amos Kimunya, caught in a hotel sale scam and censured by parliament last week, added a new dimension to the...
A G8 dilemma : Aiding Africa or aiding corruption
The world food crisis "threatens to destroy years, if not decades, of economic progress," the Africa Progress Panel said last week, prompting its Chairman...
Kenyan finance minister compared to prince of impunity asked to quit
Kenya’s finance minister was battling for his political life on Thursday after a government report into the secretive sale of a luxury Nairobi hotel...
Two former Nigerian ministers remanded in custody over corruption
Nigeria's anti-corruption agency has slammed corruption charges on two former aviation ministers and the former head of the country's National Airspace Management Agency (NAMA)...
Kenyan MPs take to the streets over hotel sale scandal
Kenyan legislators Tuesday held a peaceful demonstration demanding the removal of Finance Minister Amos Kimunya, who is caught in a hotel sale scam.
The MPs,...
Hotel scandal with minister and Libyan investors biggest in Kenyan history
A global anti-graft organisation has urged Kenya to investigate the controversy surrounding the sale of a top hotel to some Libyan investors.
The five-star Grand...
Mbeki overlooks justice and extends Selebi’s contract
Thabo Mbeki has extended the contract of suspended national police commissioner Jackie Selebi by 12 months, reports say.
This is despite various charges of corruption...
Obasanjo’s $13.5 bn power sector fraud and a shady steel company deal
Ahead of the release of the probe panel’s report on the power sector, Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, says...
Zambian president tells heads of mission he is the intellectual not them
Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa on Friday told his head of missions that he is "the intellectual, not them"
He also accused them of gross...
Zimbawean policemen vote under watchful eyes of
Policemen cast their vote countrywide yesterday to kick start postal voting ahead of the presidential election which is scheduled for Friday, June 27.
They...
Former gov’t official gets five year jail term for financial misconduct
An Accra Fast Track High Court on Wednesday sentenced a key opposition figure to five years' imprisonment for wilfully causing financial loss to the...
Election results out after 15 years
The Guinness book of records may have a new entry, after the result of an election conducted in Nigeria in 1993 was released Thursday,...
Cameroon : Journalists thrown into jail for reporting corruption
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today urged the
Cameroonian government to end the intimidation of journalists reporting on corruption scandals in the country after...
Corruption is ruining Nigeria’s potential
A damning report released by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) on Nigeria has blamed political and economic corruption for the country's failure to...
Egyptian man sentenced to one thousand years in prison
An Egyptian man has been sentenced to 1,000 years in prison after being convicted of laundering over 280 million Egyptian pounds (U$52 million).
An Egyptian...
Zimbabwe : Tens of Thousands to vote under pressure ahead of election day
A clandestine voting scheme has been hatched by the Zimbabwe Republic Police in a way that would required all police officers, their spouses...
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe swathed in ‘legal’ corruption
Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank boss Gideon Gono is struggling to stay out of
trouble. This time the controversial governor is embroiled in shares grab that has...