Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Bailed former UBC Managing Director Paul Kihika has been taken back to Luzira Prison, this time by the Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court on charges of giving false information to police. Kihika had on Monday been released on bail by the Anti-Corruption Court on charges …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The former Acting Managing Director of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) Paul Kihika has been arraigned before the Anti-Corruption Court where he faces charges of embezzlement, plus an alternative count of causing his employer a financial loss of $9,510. He has been remanded to Luzira Prison. Court …
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Why citizens have good reasons to be fed up with their politicians and what needs to be done about it COMMENT |TAHIRU AZAAVIELE LIEDONG| A few months ago, a video in which a street boy blamed bad leadership for Nigeria’s socio-economic problems, went viral on social media in the country. …
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Malawi issues warrant of arrest for former president Banda Blantyre, Malawi | AFP | Malawi police on Monday issued an arrest warrant for former president Joyce Banda in connection with the country’s “Cashgate” corruption scandal, which involved large-scale looting of government coffers. “Malawi fiscal and fraud police have unearthed credible …
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Islamabad, Pakistan | AFP | Pakistan’s parliament will meet on Tuesday to elect a new prime minister after the Supreme Court disqualified Nawaz Sharif following an investigation into corruption allegations against his family. The ruling party named Sharif’s younger brother Shahbaz as his successor over the weekend, but he must first …
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Panama City, Panama | AFP | The disqualification on Friday of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from public office over long-running corruption allegations is the latest twist in the so-called Panama Papers scandal: – What are the Panama Papers? – A trove of 11.5 million digital records from the Panamanian …
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Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | Nigeria’s former oil minister faces charges only at home but her name crops up in a growing number of international cases that lift the lid on the scale of alleged corruption in the country’s oil sector. Since leaving office in 2015, Diezani Alison-Madueke has been implicated …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Embattled Minister of State for Labour Hebert Kabafunzaki has appeared before the High court’s Anti-corruption Division based in Kololo, and mantained his innocence over allegations that he took a 5 million shillings bribe from an Investor. Kabafunzaki, together with his political assistant, Brian Mugabo and …
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Banjul, Gambia | AFP | Gambian President Adama Barrow has set up a commission to probe the assets of former leader Yahya Jammeh, accused of stealing at least $50 million from the tiny west African state. In May, The Gambia’s justice minister announced that Jammeh had plundered the meagre state …
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Bata, Equatorial Guinea | AFP | The leaders of the oil-rich African nations of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo will sue Transparency International over a case in France involving allegedly ill-gotten properties worth hundreds of millions, President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea has said. French human rights lawyer William Bourdon …
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