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ALGERIA : Release all imprisoned journalists and end attacks on the press
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US sanctions mining magnate accused of corruption in the Congo, reversing Trump-era move
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Grace Mugabe with daughter Bona and her husband Simba Chikore
WHILE the late former president Robert Mugabe’s regime was corrupt and incompetent it allowed ministers, top civil servants and its busines cronies to loot public resources Mugabe himself was very strict with family members and relatives when it came to accessing money-spinning tenders and public assets.
OWEN GAGARE
Records seen by
The NewsHawks this week show that Mugabe refused to allow his family members and relatives to be involved in government contracts and deals for self-aggrandisement.
Unlike President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose family members are deeply involved in business with the state, Mugabe only allowed his family members to have farms, not tenders and public assets, the records show. The Mugabe family accumulated 24 farms as reported in detail by
Today, two
Congolese whistleblowers formerly employed at Afriland First Bank have revealed
their identities and their stories publicly for the first time. Their
testimonial and the documents they shared with the Platform to Protect
Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) and Global Witness formed the basis of an
investigation carried out jointly and published in July 2020,
, and of several other pieces published in Bloomberg, Le Monde and Haaretz.
The
two whistleblowers, Navy Malela and Gradi Koko, worked for several years at the
auditing department of Afriland First Bank, the Congolese branch of a
Cameroonian bank. Both of them noticed irregularities and report having seen
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