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Khadija Sharife is an Africa editor at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

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ADASI

South African firms suspect UAE companies may have obtained military intellectual property

A Special Investigating Unit investigation is focused on employees of defence firms suspected of passing on military intellectual property

  • Khadija Sharife
7 min read
Iron grip: President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been in power for 36 years
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Congo-Brazzaville’s repressive government buys secret weapons haul from Azerbaijan

For several years, the Republic of the Congo has been quietly buying an arsenal from Azerbaijan, with the latest cache arriving before next month’s election

  • Khadija Sharife
  • The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
  • Mark Anderson
9 min read
A soldier of the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast (ONUCI) check weapons seized during the post-election political crisis in Ivory Coast at the military base in Abidjan, on July 12, 2012. The Ivorian government launched a new census of ex-combatants involved in the deadly post-election crisis of 2010-2011 and Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara promised to reform the army and to tackle the problem of ex-fighters, many of whom kept weapons. AFP PHOTO/ SIA KAMBOU (Photo by SIA KAMBOU / AFP)
ADAMA TOUNGARA

The European companies that armed the Ivorian civil war

AN OCCRP investigation reveals that Gunvor and Semlex brokered weapons-for-oil deals in early 2011 when Côte d’Ivoire was in crisis, despite a UN arms embargo

  • Khadija Sharife
  • Mark Anderson
  • Sana Sbouai
  • Mathieu Olivier
14 min read
President Armando Guebuza arrives at the White House for a group dinner during the US Africa Leaders Summit August 5, 2014 in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Pam Golding facilitates African kleptocrats’ money laundering

Government must take steps to clean up the country’s dirty real estate market, which has long offered a safe haven for criminals

  • Khadija Sharife
  • Mark Anderson
5 min read
The South African Reserve Bank will probably remain hawkish as energy and food prices climb in the wake of Russian aggression. (Simon Dawson, Bloomberg)
ANGOLA

Angolan elections are threatening the flow of state oil money into elite pockets

State-owned Sonangol has exclusive rights to Angola’s oil economy, making it a plum target for politicians.

  • Khadija Sharife
8 min read