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Growing clamour to remove ICC prosecutor

A coalition of lawyers, academics and NGOs has begun openly to criticise the competence of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

Mann spurned deal and chance to go free

Mercenary leader Simon Mann, on trial in Equatorial Guinea, claims that the country’s Attorney General visited him in Harare and offered him a deal.

$12bn cash vanished in Iraq

The United States flew nearly -billion in shrink-wrapped bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.…

Blair targets corruption in Africa plan

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will demand a radical shake-up of the West’s approach to the world’s poorest continent when his year-long Africa Commission calls for a doubling…

A passionate Iraqi to the end

Margaret Hassan had devoted 30 years of her life to the health and welfare of the Iraqi people. She was a convert to Islam, fluent in Arabic, with an Iraqi husband. She was a…

Western firms face bribery blacklist

The World Bank has formally reopened a corruption inquiry into a leading Canadian engineering company which could lead to the first blacklisting of a major international firm.…

Forces fighting for DRC gold named

A confidential United Nations report has accused Rwanda, Uganda and elements within the new transitional government in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of continuing to arm…

The uranium that never was

It took the British government exactly three weeks, but on Tuesday an envelope arrived at the offices of the Commons foreign affairs committee containing Jack Straw’s response to…

Lesotho corruption trail leads abroad

The long-running series of corruption trials against leading international construction companies in Lesotho has reached another milestone with a guilty plea from one of the main…

Taking corruption seriously

The Canadian engineering company Acres International of Ontario has been found guilty of paying bribes for contracts on the multibillion rand Lesotho Highlands Water Project…

Biggest mismatch in military history

April 11 2002. About 10.20am. A coach full of German tourists is bumping down the road that leads to the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Around the…

Lesotho court fines Canadian company

A Lesotho court this week fined a Canadian construction company, Acres International, ,5-million for paying bribes on the country’s multibillion-dollar dam project. The sentence…

US team in London to look at gold sanctions

A team from the United States Government Accounting Office are in Britain to examine the feasibility of imposing sanctions on South Africa’s gold.