It was not a good year for improvements on corruption anywhere in the world, according to the 2021 annual report released by Transparency International on Tuesday. Overall, the Corruption Perceptions Index report shows that 86% of the world’s nations are either losing control in the fight against corruption or remain…
Sub-Saharan Africa again was the world’s lowest-ranking region in the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index, released Wednesday by the Transparency International (TI) organization based in Berlin, Germany. The report painted “a bleak picture of inaction against corruption,” the NGO said, with some countries – Liberia, Madagascar and Malawi among them –…
New research demonstrates a link between health care access and bribery on the African continent, with some people who say they’ve been forced to offer bribes in the past more than four times more likely to have problems getting care than those who say they’ve never had to pay a…
Officials in Equatorial Guinea say ExxonMobil has struck oil with the Avestruz-1 well drilled by the company in October. It’s now being assessed for its commercial potential. The site is about 160 kilometers off Malabo, in an area adjacent to the Zafiro field in the country’s maritime area to the…
It’s not been two weeks since World Bank released its annual “Ease of Doing Business” report, which ranks countries on their business-friendly environment. It named Mauritius as the best country in Africa – less than two points behind Germany, and ahead of Thailand, Spain, France and Japan. What’s clouded this…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
Officials say that 2 million South Sudan Pounds (SSP) were stolen from the Council of States, the upper house of South Sudan’s national assembly, over the weekend. That’s more than USD$300,000. The speaker of the assembly, Joseph Bol Chan, told the Sudan Tribune that the theft from an office occurred on Sunday….
Botswana was a bright spot among African nations ranked in the 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index, released Wednesday by the Transparency International Organization based in Berlin, Germany. The southern African nation ranked 35th on the list of 176 nations evaluated for good governance, public transparency and accountability, their standards for integrity…
Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), says African poverty and hunger continue because of “a lack of committed leadership and rampant corruption.” The Nigerian native, speaking this week to a parliamentary group on agriculture at the House of Lords in London, said that despite the…