S.Africa court clears way for Zuma graft prosecution Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that President Jacob Zuma can face prosecution on almost 800 charges of corruption relating to a 1990s arms deal. Zuma had lodged a challenge at the court …
Read More »Swiss open corruption probe against PSG’s Al-Khelaifi and ex-FIFA executive
Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Switzerland has opened a criminal probe targeting Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the president of Paris Saint-Germain, and FIFA’s former secretary general Jerome Valcke, over alleged corruption in the sale of World Cup media rights. “The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has opened a criminal proceeding against …
Read More »Nigerian state oil firm hits back at graft claims
Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | Nigeria’s state-run oil firm on Monday hit back at claims of corruption from a senior government minister that have put President Muhammadu Buhari’s war on graft in the spotlight. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said the allegations made by junior oil minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu …
Read More »Leaked memo rekindles scandal around Nigeria’s oil giant
Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | A leaked memo from Nigeria’s minister of state for oil has shown that irregularities in the state-owned oil giant remain entrenched, despite official vows to root out the “cancer” of graft. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari to report on questionable practices in the …
Read More »Nigerian president denounces Biafran separatists, corruption
Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday railed against separatists seeking Nigeria’s “dismemberment” as it marked its 1960 independence from Britain and said corruption remained the African oil giant’s “number one enemy”. Buhari, who fought in the 1967-70 Biafran war, said those seeking to carve up the country …
Read More »Angola’s Dos Santos: a family business
Luanda, Angola | AFP | Critics of outgoing Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos accuse him of stripping his country of much of its vast oil wealth to enrich himself and his family. Dos Santos, who will step down on Tuesday after 38 years of iron-fisted rule, has appointed several …
Read More »Top Sierra Leone FA officials indicted
Freetown, Sierra Leone | AFP | Sierra Leone’s anti-graft agency indicted the country’s football federation president Isha Johansen and secretary general Chris Kamara on six counts of abuse of office and corruption on Thursday, following a year of investigations. The indictment was issued in Freetown by Anti-Corruption Commission chief Ade Macauley, …
Read More »UK investors irked by bureaucracy in Uganda
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Investors from the United Kingdom face frustration due to bureaucracy and corruption as they seek to start up business in Uganda. This was revealed by Lord Dolar Popat from the House of Lords while hosting the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga to a dinner in …
Read More »Disguised Uganda minister catches corrupt hospital workers
Disguised Uganda minister Opendi catches corrupt hospital workers Kampala, Uganda | AFP | Uganda’s State Minister of Health for General Duties disguised herself as a patient and caught two medical workers demanding a bribe for free government services, she told AFP on Saturday. Health State Minister Sarah Opendi said she …
Read More »Bid by S.Africa’s Zuma to fight corruption charges in doubt
Bloemfontein, South Africa | AFP | Lawyers for South African President Jacob Zuma appeared to abandon efforts on Thursday to fight the reinstatement of nearly 800 bribery charges against the embattled leader. Zuma’s attorney shocked the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein when they accepted that a 2009 decision by prosecutors …
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