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Mozambique murder trial continues
The trial before the Maputo City Court of six men accused of the 1999 attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva took an unexpected turn...
Missing Nigerian aircraft : President orders arrests
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has ordered the arrest and interrogation of four key officials of the National Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), over their roles...
Zambia seizes corrupt properties in Belgium to fund health sector
The Zambian government has disclosed it earned about 13.6 billion Kwacha from the sale of seized properties and that the money will be spent...
Murderer changes journalist killing story and blames another
The man who led the death squad that murdered Mozambique's foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, in November 2000, Monday changed his story and claimed...
Nigerian senator’s financial scam draws attention from lawyer and senate
A Lagos lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, Wednesday called on the Nigeria's anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to declare Senator Iyabo...
Nigeria : Systemic corruption and governance account for high poverty rates
The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Robin Renne Sanders, has described poverty as "perhaps the greatest challenge facing Nigeria today," with more than half of...
EPA is a pirate deal from Europe to disable African growth
A new report has slammed the controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to be signed between the European Union (EU) and developing countries and called...
Nigeria oil sector investigations begin
Nigeria's House of Representatives has set up a 26-member panel to probe the activities of the state-run Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the...
Nigeria : Corrupt ex first daughter plays the victim card
The whereabouts of Nigeria 's former First Daughter, Iyabo Obasanjo, has been making newspaper headlines since she went into hiding earlier this week to...
Nigeria : Anti-corruption agency recovers over $500m in 5 years
Nigeria's Anti-Corruption Body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), convicted 250 persons and recovered more than US$ 500 billion in cash and property...
Nigerian oficials charged with corruption
Nigeria's anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged two former ministers, the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and nine others with...
Nigeria probes another ex-official
Nigeria's immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, was grilled for over two hours by an anti-graft agency Wednesday over the management of...
Cameroonian ministers arrested for corruption
The police in Cameroon Monday arrested two former Ministers on alleged graft charges, police sources said.
The police in Cameroon Monday arrested two former Ministers...
Yar’Adua gets tougher as two ministers get the sack
Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s president, has sacked two ministers on suspicion of stealing public funds, a sign he is adopting a more assertive style after...
Nigerian Ministers charged with corruption resign
The two Ministers in Nigeria's Health Ministry have resigned over corruption allegations and they are expected to face corruption charges, the presidency said in...
Missing trial cash exhibit, ex drug baron charged
Nigeria's Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has recommended the trial of a former Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement...
Kenyan minister’s aide arrested over US$ 2,800 bribe
The integrity of Kenya’s Minister for Local Government, Uhuru Kenyatta, was called into question Wednesday following the arrest of his aide, Mr. Justus Kariuki,...
Scandal looms in Nigerian power sector
In a development that will surely be latched onto by the opposition, a parliamentary probe of how the immediate past Nigerian administration frittered away...
Nigeria police dismiss 35 officers for corruption
The Nigerian police have dismissed 35 officers for corrupt practices, after they were summarily tried, the local press reported Saturday.
The report quoted the Inspector-General...
Police detain and beat journalists Sihem Bensedrine and Omar Mestiri
Reporters Without Borders has strongly condemned police who
detained and beat Tunisian journalist, Sihem Bensedrine, president of the working group on press freedom in North...
Riots kill 12 in Douala
At least 12 persons were killed in a riot that broke out Monday in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon. The riot stemmed from...
Uganda: Museveni refuses to avoid elections
Ugandan government has rejected demands by rebel leader ship of the Lords Resistance Movement (LRA) to share power, saying they must go through the...
Yar’Adua’s Boot Camp Reforms: Kicking himself out of office?
Whilst he is combatting political acrobatics, strategically rehearsed and put into practice by Nigerian politicians since time immemorial, to rig elections, through the setting...
Nigeria’s New trend : Politics, Anti-corruption and National Development
The war on corruption launched by Nigerian President Yar’Adua through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has gained a lot of ground. Meanwhile...
Kenyan electoral chief “coerced” to announce flawed results
The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) chairman Samuel Kivuitu has admitted being pressurized to announce "flawed" results in the Kenyan presidential race, which saw...
Kenyan presidential polls get underway
Kenyans turned up in large numbers Thursday to vote for a new president in this year's general elections, billed as the greatest test of...
Chadian rebel leader denounces arms supply to Déby by Paris
A Chadian opposition leader has strongly denounced France for allegedly supplying missiles to the government of President Idriss Déby, warning Paris that this risked...
Publicity, potent weapon of anti-corruption — British diplomat
Immediate past British High Commissioner to Nigeria Richard Gozney, has identified publicity as the strongest weapon in the fight agains t corruption in the...
Zoe’s Ark: French will stay in Chad’s prison
This Wednesday, the judge has refused to release the nine person accused in the Zoe’s Ark affair. His decision followed the huge anti-French march...
5 ex-Nigerian state governors ‘to return stolen 50b naira’
Five former state governors in Nigeria have agreed to return a total of 50 billion naira in looted public funds, so they will not...