Corruption

Following sharp drop in crude oil prices with it’s expected impact on economic wellsprings of the people, Nigeria civic tech organisation Budgitng in a series of tweets highlighted the abuse of Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund framework including, illegal transfer...

Angolan billionaire former first daughter Isabel dos Santos said on Thursday that her companies in Portugal, where prosecutors seized her bank accounts last week, still owed local banks €180 million ($194m) after repaying the bulk of the loans."The inexplicable...

Lawyers for Equatorial Guinea told United Nations judges Monday that French authorities illegally seized a mansion in Paris that the African nation insists operated as its embassy. The building was seized as part of a money laundering investigation into...

The estranged wife of Zimbabwe's Vice-President Constatino Chiwenga, Marry Mubaiwa, has been denied access to their children and their home.A high court dismissed Ms Mubaiwa's application in which she was seeking access to her home and children.She was ordered...

Portugal’s public prosecutor said on Tuesday it had ordered the seizure of Portuguese bank accounts belonging to Isabel dos Santos, who is a suspect in a fraud investigation in Angola.Dos Santos, the daughter of former Angolan president Jose Eduardo...

The son of Equatorial Guinea's leader was handed a 30-million-euro fine by a Paris court Monday on top of a suspended jail term for using public money to fund a jet-set lifestyle in Europe.Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial...

A Zimbabwean judge on Friday described as “frightening” the use of soldiers by the country’s vice president in a divorce-related dispute, and ruled that his wife should regain custody of their children and be allowed to access the family’s...

Zimbabwe vice president Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa, gained custody of the couple's three children on Friday last week, as part of an initially agreed out-of-court settlement, which was, however, aborted after the former army chief made a...

Africa's richest woman,  and daughter of Angola former president, Isabel dos Santos, has denied fraud and may have concluded plans to sue the Angolan government.Ms Dos Santos in a statement on Thursday said the accusations made by Attorney General...

A Portuguese banker named in a major Angolan money-laundering and corruption scandal has died in apparent suicide at his home in Lisbon, police said Thursday.Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, named as a suspect by Angolan authorities in an investigation targeting...