Graft

UGANDA: MPs set their own salaries and bleed the economy

Civil Servants in Uganda Raise Questions Over Parliament’s Ability to Set Own Salaries, Benefits By GLOBAL PRESS JOURNAL In Uganda, members of the parliament decide their own pay, even as Read More

Tanzania’s anti-graft body arrests 50 cooperative unions officials over suspected fraud

DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — Tanzania’s anti-corruption watchdog said on Thursday it was holding 50 cooperative unions officials in connection with misappropriation of some 212,000 U.S. dollars earmarked Read More

UGANDA: Museveni issues a Presser on China / Hong Kong Protests

Sometimes, one has to wonder what possesses Ugandan journalists, activists and even government to comment about such rubbish as “Uganda sides with China”? That is how your reputation tanks. DIGITAL Read More

DR Congo police detain ex-health minister in Ebola funds probe

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits an Ebola center in Beni, eastern Congo Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. Guterres is starting a three-day visit to Congo to see the work of Read More

UGANDA: Everything is corrupt in the country

Patrick Ho, Yoweri Museveni, Sam Kuteesa Bribes & Corruption By JOHN SCOT I worked and lived in Kampala for 14 years. I ran my own private company from 2001 until Read More

Congo Brazzaville’s ‘first son’ laundered $50mln via 6 European countries

REUTERS/PIER PAOLO CITO/POOLIt’s all allegedly happening under president Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s watch. Congo Brazzaville’s ‘first son’ laundered $50 million through six European countries – report By QUARTZ A new investigation by Read More

Zimbabwean Bank Alleges Loan Defaults by 26 Public Figures

FILE – Grace Mugabe, then Zimbabwe’s first lady, dances at a rally in Gweru, Zimbabwe, Sept, 1, 2017. By VOA News The Zimbabwean president’s son, a former first lady and Read More

UGANDA: NGOs reap off donors effortlessly

A BOY SITS OUTSIDE A BEDROOM AT THE ORPHANAGE SAVE THE AIDS GENERATION. (ZACH CALDWELL/VICE NEWS) How Foreign Donations, Poverty and Corruption Are Fueling Uganda’s Unregulated Orphanage Industry “The people Read More

UGANDA: Learn to mind your own business

Last month, I shared globally that I had resigned from one of the biggest NGOs in East Africa, and likely one of the biggest ones on the continent. After two Read More

UGANDA: Central Bank Fraud – BoU

Dr. Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor of Bank of Uganda – Central Bank Dr. Louis A. Kasekende is a Ugandan economist. He is the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda. There Read More