Sierra Leone has begun a long-awaited inquiry to determine what happened to millions in funding during the nation’s devastating Ebola crisis – money that government officials and outbreak survivors say never reached Ebola patients and their communities. The funds went missing as more than 14,000 people in Sierra Leone contracted…
Former South African president Jacob Zuma joined his successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, in a show of African National Congress unity on Tuesday as the ANC celebrated its anniversary in the KwaZulu-Natal province. The celebration at the Ohlange Institute – a site founded by the first ANC president in 1912 –…
A planned inauguration for President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be held on Sunday, now that Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court has ruled his July 30 election will stand. Court Justice Luke Malaba presented the decision in favor of Mnangagwa, who won with 50.8 percent of the vote over Nelson Chamisa, the Movement for…
Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court will hear on Wednesday the presidential election results challenge filed by opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa and his Movement for Democratic Change Alliance party. The hearing moves forward in a nation on edge, following the initial July 30 election that gave Zanu PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa the slimmest…
Malians waited Tuesday for final election results after Sunday’s second-round runoff between President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali and URD opposition candidate Soumaila Cissé, who has already dismissed the outcome as illegitimate. Cissé called on his supporters to rise up and refuse to accept a president elected by fraud. His…
Zambia’s communications minister is defending the southern African nation’s plans to more tightly control social media use, saying the government is concerned about scams and other Internet abuses. Brian Mushimba, the Transport and Communications minister, said in a statement issued Friday that more than 600 Zambians have lost tens of…
Mohammed Jabbateh, a Liberian living in the United States, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after a guilty verdict in October on charges of immigration fraud and perjury. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) identified Jabbateh as a brutal warlord during the 1992-1995 years of Liberia’s first civil…
In South Africa, the property and assets of the Gupta family were seized Monday in a raid on their Saxonwold compound in Johannesburg, in connection with an ongoing corruption investigation into a dairy project – one of many such cases implicating the influential Guptas, who are tied to former president…
Former South African president Jacob Zuma will face 16 charges on fraud, corruption, racketeering and money laundering tied to a 1990s-era arms deal that has haunted his political career for years. The decision announced Friday by National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shaun Abrahams reinstates charges originally filed against Zuma…
Two survivors of Sierra Leone’s 2014 Ebola virus outbreak filed a human rights violation complaint with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice on Friday. The 15-page court filing says the government led by President Ernest Bai Koromo violated citizens’ rights, by failing in its financial…
As if the Ebola crisis in West Africa wasn’t tragic enough, investigators at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) now say at least USD$6 million was lost to fraud and corruption during an emergency that lasted from 2014 through 2016. As much as $2.1 million…
Authorities in Zimbabwe say they plan to crack down on self-styled “witch hunters” who prey on people in traditional communities, essentially extorting their cash, livestock and other goods – and often doing so with the knowledge of complicit and corrupt local chiefs. Charity Charamba, the national spokeswoman for the Zimbabwe…
20 of the 30 candidates competing for the position of president in Central African Republic have demanded that authorities halt the vote count due to what they consider to be abnormalities in the ballot, reported Reuters. Polling stations opened on the morning of Wednesday December 30 after numerous delays. The…