Tag Archives: corruption

7 medical practitioners and 22 others have been indicted by the ACC in...

March 7, 2013 1 comment

The Anti-Corruption Commission has today 7th March 2013 filed in the High Court of Sierra Leone, holden at Freetown, 29 indictments on various corruption offences against officials of the National He...

Illicit financial outflows as six trillion dollars stolen from poor na...

February 5, 2013 no comments

By Jaya Ramachandran - IDN-InDepthNews*, Berlin - Crime, corruption, and tax evasion recorded near-historic highs in 2010, with illicit financial outflows costing the developing world $859 billion in...

Freetown Confidential reports – Sierra Leone opposition SLPP Pre...

October 14, 2012 1 comment

Sierra Leone’s top investigative and well respected online newspaper, Freetown Confidential, is reporting that the SLPP opposition presidential candidate, Julius Maada Bio will be facing charge...

Reports: Swazis starve because of corrupt, undemocratic and inefficien...

September 10, 2012 no comments

The Swazi government is largely to blame for the economic recession and subsequent increasing amount of Swazis who have to skip meals due to the financial mismanagement of the Swazi government, accor...

And East Africa’s most corrupt are…

September 6, 2012 no comments

Despite the heightened measures formulated by government agencies to help curb corruption cases, it seems that the same old problem is here to stay with U.S. based Transparency International recently...

Court drops corruption charges against Ministers in Uganda

August 1, 2012 no comments

The Anti-Corruption Court division of the High Court has set free three former ministers of health, after the state failed to prove a corruption case against them of mismanaging funds of Global Allia...

Running out of options – Sierra Leone’s opposition SLPP party set for ...

July 27, 2012 1 comment

It is important that we all as human beings learn lessons from our past mistakes. But sometimes in life, the quest for power, and the politics of greed, leaves our minds in turmoil and we surrender t...

Equatorial Guinea president’s son Teodorin Obiang buys €18m wort...

April 29, 2012 2 comments

At a time when African leaders like President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone are taking steps to end corruption in their country, some African politicians are thriving from the loot of their count...

Activist ask Malawi government to freeze former President Mutharika...

April 20, 2012 1 comment

Human rights activist Ben Chiza Mkandawire has asked the Malawi government to freeze the accounts of late Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika and proble his dealings with some local and international...

Woyome, corruption and development

February 22, 2012 no comments

Development-wise, it appears despite their chequered development history, Ghanaian politicians do not get it. A ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament, Kojo Adu Asare, thinks ...

Politics and business are the main source of widespread corruption in ...

January 29, 2012 no comments

Bucharest – Public administration, political parties and the business climate are the main contributors to widespread corruption in Romania, appearing as the most vulnerable pillars in the national i...

As Sierra Leone takes steps to end corruption – Other African st...

January 18, 2012 1 comment

Africa has long been considered among the world’s most corrupt places, a factor seen as contributing to the slow development and impoverishment of many African countries. Out of the ten countri...

The billions of dollars siphoned through corruption in Nigeria could h...

January 12, 2012 no comments

KANO, Nigeria, (IPS) – As a nationwide strike and protests against the lifting of the fuel subsidy paralysed Nigeria for the third day in a row Wednesday, analysts say the billions of dollars a year ...

Outrage! as opposition appointed diplomats and civil servants sabotage...

December 28, 2011 no comments

Civil servants and diplomats appointed to key positions of authority and influence by the previous SLPP government in Sierra Leone, are alleged to have gone on the rampage to sabotage, destroy and ru...

Transparency International claims that three African leaders own estat...

November 8, 2011 no comments

Transparency International is a global civil society organisation that is leading the fight against corruption around the world and brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the...

Set up a committee to investigate the ACC in Sierra Leone

October 26, 2011 no comments

In Sierra Leone last week I engaged a very noble senior citizen of the country in a joke. I told him that the country’s anti graft institution was handing over to his government a little over seven h...