Sierra Leone needs to rebuild public trust in its election by maintaining a completely transparent process.
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Corruption in countries like Australia can be difficult to spot, which is why bodies like ICAC are performing such a vital role.
Health workers with relatives in positions of power were frequently absent from work.
In a world where economic sanctions make trade in US dollars almost impossible, gold has offered a way to evade these restrictions.
Peace and security in South Sudan depend on a fully functioning, peaceful and democratic government in Khartoum
The book shows how parts of South Africa now fester with organised crime.
The Economic Crime Bill is supposed to be riding to the rescue, but it won’t make much difference in its current form.
As US influence in Latin America has waned, Beijing has been able to expand business interests in the region on the back of shady practices.
Ethiopia’s mass housing project has built and transferred half-a-million houses in two decades – but it’s damaging the social fabric of communities.
Fear has important consequences for how people vote, what they spend their money on, who they consider to be part of their communities, and who they treat as outsiders.
Although the series perpetuates the stereotype that politically ambitious women can’t be trusted in high office, it thoughtfully portrays the ubiquity of everyday sexism in political culture.
How Swapo and the ANC respond to any further decline in electoral support will define the future of democracy in both countries.
A threshold has been crossed, with a pessimistic outlook becoming more dominant than an optimistic one.
Lobbyists have long had unfettered access to NZ’s politicians. But recent scandals have highlighted the need for transparency to ensure corporations don’t wild too much influence over our leaders.
Illegal logging entrenches systemic corruption, undermines accountability in governance, and finances insecurity.
Collusion between the police, the department of correctional services and the private company, G4S, has made it impossible to enforce accountability.
The Manhattan District Attorney will need to prove several different points in its prosecution of Trump. But securing an unbiased jury will also challenge the execution of this unprecedented case.
Ghana’s flawed democracy has failed to establish mechanisms to effectively control corruption.
Mashatile could be the new broom that sweeps clean. Ramaphosa’s apparent confidence in him suggests that he has some latitude to do so.
Neil Agget’s passionate trade unionism proved fateful. It made him a target of a brutally repressive apartheid police state.
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