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Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who were once allies, are now on opposite sides of a campaign to discredit Tedros. Previously undisclosed Ethiopian government documents reveal allegations of embezzlement and sexual misconduct against Tedros, who denies all the accusations.

The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, which produced a damning report that cited mass killings, rape, starvation, forced displacement and arbitrary jailings during the Tigray war, has been shut down.

A cache of documents reveal an Ethiopian government investigation into Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He calls it a “smear campaign.”

For 400 hot and dusty kilometers, a two-lane highway cuts through central Africa, its path lined with the carcasses of trucks, buses and minivans, but this modest road holds outsize value for global markets, connecting some of the continent’s richest mines to the rest of the world and, most notably, China. Along the route, thousands of flatbed trucks haul sheets of copper and sacks of cobalt hydroxide, essential for electric vehicles and other 21st-century technologies. Their drivers must pay ...

Audits allege $238 million paid to transport cobalt and copper have gone missing.

The Kabilas’ involvement in the toll road came to light through the biggest leak ever of financial documents from Africa.

The largest leak yet of financial documents in Africa reveals how at least $138m of government funds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was laundered to former president Joseph Kabila’s relatives and associates. At least $2.4m was used to purchase properties in Johannesburg. The largest...

Hezbollah and Israel’s Richest Were Both Welcome at a Congo Bank Bloomberg 27/02/2021 (Bloomberg) -- 2018 was a good year for Afriland First Group SA, a Switzerland-based company that oversees a network of banks across Africa. In his opening comments to the annual report for the year, Paul Fokam, the group’s chairman and one of Cameroon’s wealthiest men, highlighted the “challenge of being ethical and compliant while creating value.” He asked readers to bear in mind that “we are ...

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