Africa has been selected to pilot a United Nations-funded project to reduce illicit financial flows (IFFs). The pilot by the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development ... Read more »
A new report from The Sentry, shows that in an effort to evade the international sanctions designed to disrupt its nuclear weapons program, North Korea exploited vulnerabilities in ... Read more »
Zambia will now try to estimate how much revenue was lost under its tax treaty with Mauritius, which one official described as "not balanced or fair". It is the second African ... Read more »
East African countries received U.S.$17.38 billion from their citizens living abroad between 2013 and 2018, as foreign remittances outpaced foreign direct investment to become the ... Read more »
Despite widespread political instability in the region, East Africa has only 10% of its citizens wanting to leave for other continents, according to a report by Afrobarometer. Read more »
While more than a third of Africans have thought about emigrating, far fewer are actually putting concrete measures in place to do so, according to a new report by Pan-African ... Read more »
According to a report released by news and research portal Disrupt Africa, African tech startups smashed funding records in 2018 with 210 startups securing U.S.$334.5 million worth ... Read more »
As if the scramble for Africa wasn't bad enough, Germany's personal representative of Angela Merkel for Africa, Günther Nooke, says Europe deserves a second chance to screw ... Read more »
The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has reportedly said that the government is investigating officials who have bank accounts abroad. Read more »
Money illegally transferred across borders has more than doubled to U.S.$100 billion annually from U.S.$50 billion in 2015, but a lack of cooperation and information exchange ... Read more »
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