Burkina Creates Special Court to Fight Corruption
The government of Burkina Faso on Wednesday announced it has created a specialized court to deal with corruption cases in the west-African nation. A broadcast […]
Corruption
Nigeria: Government to review mining licences
Nigeria government is set to review all its mining licences as its wants to overhaul a largely unproductive sector dominated by artisan miners, the mining […]
Kenya: ministerial reshuffle hits corruption tainted gov’t
Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday to replace five ministers who are being investigated for graft. President Uhuru Kenyatta, who this week described […]
Tunisia: Top cabinet member resigns over leniency on corruption
Tunisian junior Minister in charge of Relations with the Parliament, Lazhar Akremi, resigned on Tuesday for “personal motives,” according to the Tunisian Prime Minister’s office, […]
Nigeria: Buhari fires his military chiefs
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has fired Nigeria’s Chief of Defence, and the heads of Army, Navy and the Air Force. The service chiefs were relieved Monday. […]
Nigeria’s anti-graft agency arrests over 20 bankers for fraud
Just few days after Nigeria’s new president took office, the country’s anti-corruption agency accused top officials from the central bank of involvement in a multimillion-dollar […]
Nigeria : Buhari delivers speech after victory
General Muhammadu Buhari has been officially declared winner of the Nigerian presidential elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in what is known to […]
Egypt: EU’s aid heavily criticized
The high rate of human rights violation and corruption in Egypt has displeased the European Commission despite the €1 billion aid from the European Union […]
Tunisia’s “Corruption ban” to be uplifted for economic revival
Tunisia’s president has called for the imposed travel ban on citizens suspected of corruption, which is estimated to be affecting 0,4% of businessmen to be […]
Nigeria lost more than $400 billion of oil proceeds since 1960
Nigeria has lost more than $400 billion of its oil revenue because of theft or mismanagement since the country’s independence in 1960. The figure was […]