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June 04
West Africa: Tax Evasion Without Borders
"On paper, the company that engineered and built the [$50 million mineral sands] processing plant [in Senegal] was SNC Lavalin-Mauritius Ltd, a local division of SNC Lavalin… Read more »
May 07
Africa: Usa/Africa - Renewable Energy Advances On Many Fronts
Resistance to rapid renewable energy expansion is still high, despite the acknowledged costs in climate change. The U.S. Power Africa initiative still funds predominately natural… Read more »
Africa: U.S/Africa - Achieving 100 Percent Renewable Energy
"We can't have a working nation or a world if we don't stop the climate from careening out of control. That's been clear for decades now, but what's been less clear is precisely… Read more »
April 23
Ethiopia: Wax, Gold, and 'Ethiopianness'
The appointment of Abiy Ahmed as prime minister of Ethiopia on April 2 was met with relief and with high expectations by Ethiopians as well as internationally. Although he is a… Read more »
March 26
Zimbabwe: Women Continue Protest At Hwange Coal
At a meeting on February 11, two weeks into a protest by hundreds of women in the mining community outside the company's offices, still continuing in late March, the Hwange… Read more »
March 12
Africa: Charting Where They Hide the Money, 2
"Overall, the City of London and [its] offshore satellites constitute by far the most important part of the global offshore world of secrecy jurisdictions. Had we lumped them… Read more »
Africa: Charting Where They Hide the Money, 1
"Switzerland, the United States and the Cayman Islands are the world's biggest contributors to financial secrecy, according to the latest edition of the Tax Justice Network's… Read more »
February 26
Africa: Nigeria/Global - Promising Potential for Solar Mini-Grids
In contrast to fossil fuels, which require transportation of fuel to generation plants to produce electricity, and distribution networks to reach end-users of the power, solar… Read more »
January 15
South Africa: Inequality Is Extreme and Still Rising
"I came here because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a… Read more »
Africa: World Trends in Inequality
"The divergence in inequality levels has been particularly extreme between Western Europe and the United States, which had similar levels of inequality in 1980 but today are in… Read more »
October 09, 2017
Africa: Tobacco Industry Targets African Markets
"British American Tobacco (BAT) and other multinational tobacco firms have threatened governments in at least eight countries in Africa demanding they axe or dilute the kind of… Read more »
August 08, 2017
Liberia: Bridge to Education, or to Nowhere?
"When Liberia's Minister of Education, George Werner, announced last spring that he was inviting foreign education companies and non-profits to run our public schools, our country… Read more »
July 17, 2017
Congo-Kinshasa: Inga Dam Mirage Recedes, Again
The latest projections for the Inga 3 hydroelectric project on the Congo River to become operational, cited in press reports last week, are 2024 or 2025. But even if the project is… Read more »
July 10, 2017
Africa: Africa/Global - Following the Money
"As an important tool in our fight against corruption, tax evasion, terrorist financing and money laundering, we will advance the effective implementation of the international… Read more »
May 17, 2017
Africa: Whose Energy?
"We, the undersigned representatives of African civil society, express our deep concern regarding efforts by the European Union and France to hijack the Africa Renewable Energy… Read more »
May 08, 2017
Africa: World Bank Financing Land Grabs
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April 17, 2017
Africa: New Reports Show Massive Tax Losses
On April 15, "tax day" in the United States, tens of thousands of demonstrators in over 200 communities around the country marched to demand that President Trump make public his… Read more »
March 28, 2017
Liberia: Mining, Displacement, and the World Bank
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March 21, 2017
Africa: Scaling Up Solar
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February 28, 2017
Africa: Open Data for Tax Justice
"Multinational companies typically publish global, consolidated accounts - and international accounting standards now allow these to roll into one all financial information on the… Read more »
February 20, 2017
Africa: Agribusiness Giants On Merger Path
"If the Bayer-Monsanto merger is approved, the new merged company will control almost 30% of the global commercial seed market and 25% of the agrochemical market - making it the… Read more »
January 30, 2017
Kenya: The State of the Internet
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January 23, 2017
South Africa: State Capture & Energy Policy
"Eskom, accused of overly cozy ties with the Guptas featured heavily in the report, with 916 mentions. ... it's Eskom's chief executive, Brian Molefe, who comes out looking the… Read more »
November 28, 2016
Africa: Overcoming the Shadow Economy
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October 18, 2016
Ghana: Ghana - New Debt Trap
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