FOR too long, Africa has suffered the dire consequences of unbridled corruption, which largely accounts for the continent’s glaring backwardness on many fronts. In Nigeria, systemic corruption is ...

Berlin, 30 January 2024 – The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released today by Transparency International indicates a region consistently marked by its poor performance, with most African ...

The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Francis Ben Kaifala, has blamed judges in ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa has active investigations into alleged corruption totaling more than $7 billion at some of its top state-owned companies, according to a report published Tuesday ...

Banking gets little attention in the study of global geopolitics except when sanctions are involved. Yet a healthy banking system or its opposite is a strong indicator of whether a country or region ...

President Trump took the world by surprise when he cut off U.S. foreign aid to South Africa earlier this year. In a February executive order, he cited Pretoria’s “aggressive positions towards the ...

The rising demand for land due to the global food crisis, climate change, rising sea levels, desertification, and extreme weather events, all limit its availability and accessibility. As global crises ...

Former Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo says corruption remains Africa’s biggest governance challenge and a significant threat to development, despite progress in institutional reforms across the ...

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Corruption in Africa is no different to corruption anywhere else on the planet, according to a new book by the former chair of graft watchdog Transparency ...

Johandri Wright receives funding from the National Research Foundation and the University of the Western Cape. Whistleblowing is an important tool in fighting corruption. In South Africa, the ...

FILE - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appears on behalf of the ruling African National Congress party at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state corruption in Johannesburg, South Africa, ...