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The anti-graft crusade of the administration is falling to pieces Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the suspension of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Managing Director, Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman over allegations of non-remittance of operating surpluses from 2016 to 2020 to the tune of over a hundred billion. While there are also counter-allegations of impropriety against the transportation minister, Mr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, it is not lost on Nigerians that members of the ruling Al...

Andra Timu and Irina Vilcu, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- In her homeland of Romania, Laura Codruta Kovesi ignited an unprecedented anti-corruption drive that landed the country’s most powerful politician behind bars. As Kovesi gears up to head the first European Union-wide prosecutors office, she’s looking to repeat her domestic success by targeting as much as 60 billion euros ($73 billion) that she estimates the bloc’s budget loses each year to fraud. The stakes have never been...

Monday, 3 May, 2021 - 05:00 Iraqi police vehicles in Baghdad. (Reuters file photo) Asharq Al-Awsat Iraqi police were questioned on Sunday after 21 prisoners escaped from jail, the latest breakout to highlight failings in the countrys security system. Ten of the escaped prisoners, all convicted on drug and terrorism charges, had been recaptured by Sunday afternoon, after a manhunt was launched at dawn. Interior minister Othman Al G...

   2021/05/03 08:23 Members of the Iraqi Counter-terrorism Service (ICTS) are deployed in the streets of the capital Baghdad, March 27, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP) Iraqi police were questioned Sunday after 21 prisoners escaped jail, the latest breakout to highlight failings in the countrys security system. Ten of the escaped prisoners, all convicted on drug and terrorism charges, had been recaptured by Sunday afternoon after a manhunt was launched at dawn. The interior m...

Iraqi police questioned after 21 prisoners escape jail AFP 2nd May, 2021 06:09:33 Iraqi police were questioned Sunday after 21 prisoners escaped jail, the latest breakout to highlight failings in the countrys security system. Ten of the escaped prisoners, all convicted on drug and terrorism charges, had been recaptured by Sunday afternoon after a manhunt was launched at dawn. The interior minister immediately "ordered the confinement to the barracks of all officers and police" at Hilal district...

Other detainees get help from armed groups and tribes, often equipped with heavy arms. Anti-corruption civil society organisation Transparency International ranks Iraq 21st from bottom in its Corruption Perceptions Index. In mid-March, men from a powerful pro-Iran armed group disguised as soldiers freed a drug trafficker under police escort while en route to court in Amara, another town in rural southern Iraq. In an effort to flush out the escapees and discourage accomplices from sheltering t...

African Youth Engaging in Peace and Security Format Despite challenges of unemployment, corruption, entrenched political leadership, and political violence, many African youth have found constructive avenues to promote peace, effective governance, and reform. Africa remains the world’s youngest continent with a median age of 19.7 years. By 2050, one in three young people will live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Still, 80-90 percent of African workers are still engaged in the informal sector. Each yea...

2021-04-29 15:36:19 Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Transparency International has released its 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) based on experts and the perceptions of business people of corruption in 180 countries. We spoke with O. Batbayar, CEO of “Transparency International Mongolia”, about the level of corruption within Mongolia according to the Corruption Perceptions Index. He said that Mongolia had a score of 35 this year. The 2019 index was also 35. The Corruption Per...

Angola Made Her Africa’s Richest Woman, But the Tide Has Turned Bloomberg 2 hrs ago (Bloomberg) -- A year after Angolan authorities cracked down on her multibillion-dollar business empire, Africa’s once-richest woman is watching it crumble. From self-imposed exile in Dubai, Isabel dos Santos has been fighting a legal battle against Angola’s government as court orders roil her companies. In Luanda, shelves at the Candando supermarket stores are more than half-empty. A beer factory south...

Angola Made Her Africa’s Richest Woman, But the Tide Has Turned Bloomberg 3 hrs ago (Bloomberg) -- A year after Angolan authorities cracked down on her multibillion-dollar business empire, Africa’s once-richest woman is watching it crumble. From self-imposed exile in Dubai, Isabel dos Santos has been fighting a legal battle against Angola’s government as court orders roil her companies. In Luanda, shelves at the Candando supermarket stores are more than half-empty. A beer factory south...