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Africa: Beating the 'Resource Curse' - Corruption in Oil, Mining Industries
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
Africa is a notoriously difficult place to do business. Many investors remain sceptical of their ability to navigate the continent's often murky operational environments, where… Read more »
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Nigeria: Corruption Cripples Fight Against Boko Haram
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
Since the abduction last April of 200 schoolgirls by Nigeria's militia group Boko Haram, the world has been watching the west African nation's fight against the insurgents and… Read more »
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South Sudan: Old Corruption Continues in New Nation
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
The box was half the height of the minister's desk. At the start of the day it was full to the brim with South Sudanese banknotes. Read more »
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Kenya: Corruption Costs Lives in Kenya
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
John Githongo--Kenya's most famous whistleblower--does not mince his words: "We're paying the price of corruption in blood." Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Corruption Exposes Fuel Factional Battles
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
When Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was sworn in for a seventh consecutive term in August 2013, he named the fight against corruption as the biggest priority of his new term.… Read more »
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Guinea: Corruption Can be Stopped, Guinea Shows
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
In most of the developing world, and particularly in Africa, corruption is so entrenched that sometimes it feels insurmountable. Often the forces of accountability and transparency… Read more »
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Malawi: Clean or Not, Corruption Helped Banda Lose Election
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
Chimwemwe Lusungu was one of the first beneficiaries of Malawi's much-touted economic miracle, the result of a large-scale national programme that subsidises agricultural inputs,… Read more »
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Angola: Hidden Interests Benefit from Angola's Transport Upgrade
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
On the border between Angola's eastern Moxico province and the southern Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a Chinese-made iron dragon--the Benguela… Read more »
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Kenya: Corruption Fight in Kenya Should be People's War
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
Although African governments have established countless institutions and agencies to fight corruption, graft remains rampant across the continent. Transparency International's (TI)… Read more »
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Egypt: New Investment Law Worries Workers, Activists
Africa In Fact, 1 September 2014
At the Trade Syndicate building in downtown Cairo, dozens of workers met with lawyers last May to plan their challenge to a new investment law that restricts contract oversight.… Read more »
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Africa: Who Are You Calling Corrupt?
ThinkAfricaPress, 2 September 2014
Is claiming to be a leader in international development whilst presiding over structures that facilitate the loss of billions from Africa not a form of corruption itself? Read more »