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Isabel dos Santos. Image: Nuno Coimbra 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 of the capital is running at 30% of its production capacity. Ope...

The need to tackle multiple crises The need to tackle multiple crises amid this severe spring wave of coronavirus, alongside the pressing need to facilitate the spending of EU Recovery Fund monies while ensuring a sustainable economic recovery increases pressure on the political leadership of Bulgaria to seek a working government. The pro-European ethos across the Bulgarian political spectrum means that there is comparative continuity likely in at least one crucial objective relevant to the sov...

Bulgaria needs stable govt after fragmented vote to ensure reform momentum – Scope Ratings Author: National Assembly of Bulgaria / All rights reserved. SOFIA (Bulgaria), April 7 (SeeNews) - The formation of Bulgaria’s next government is critical for the timing of the country’s euro accession, currently aimed for 1 January 2024, as well as for the progress on judicial and governance reforms, a Scope Ratings analyst said on Tuesday, adding that both developments are hig...

+ The two front-runners in Ghana’s 2020 election have weak records on tackling corruption. This leaves voters with little choice. Make no mistake, Ghana is doing well. It’s one of only four sub-Saharan African countries ranked “free” in 2020 on the Freedom in the World index that measures political rights and civil liberties.  In addition, Ghana has a strong and independent broadcast media and consistently ranks in the top three countries in Africa for freedom of speech and press free...

MARIAM MATHEW 9 February, 2021, 9:14 pm Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba leads a silent protest against government corruption in Cape Town on September 15 2020. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN Transparency International recently released the 2020 annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). The CPI draws on up to 13 external data sources to give each country a score of 0 (very corrupt) to 100 (very clean). A country needs to appear in a minimum of three sources to be included in the report. Bec...

Bangkok [Thailand], February 6 (ANI): The military coup of Myanmar on February 1 is the saga of General Min Aung Hlaing financial interests and the military's unscrutinised economic domination, reported Asia Times.

EU Reporter Published 2 months ago Nur-Sultan, 4 February 2021 – The National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan and with the support of the USA and other international partners, carried out an operation to return a group of Kazakhstan citizens from Syria to their homeland. The group consists of four men, one woman and seven children, including two orphans. In accordance with the national legi...

Alex Vatanka Director of Iran Program and Senior Fellow, Frontier Europe Initiative In the next two weeks officials in Tehran will celebrate the victory of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Make no mistake though, the 42 nd anniversary of the revolution that gave birth to a militant Islamist political model will be a bittersweet one. The party line is straightforward: Iran has prevailed in the face of much international hostility and can be proud to call itself the only truly independent country i...

Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index lists fraud and corruption linked to emergency Covid-19 funds among the main challenges that face South Africa. But if you think these are the only challenges, think again.

Press Release – Transparency International NZ The New Zealand public sector and judiciary has again been ranked the least corrupt in the world. The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released today by global anti-corruption organization Transparency International ranks New Zealand first equal … The New Zealand public sector and judiciary has again been ranked the least corrupt in the world. The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released today by global anti-corruption organizati...