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Khadija Sharife

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Khadija Sharife

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

Mozambique President Armando Guebuza.

Mozambique’s government-industrial complex

Dangerously close links between government officials and the private sector encourage corruption

Costly rule: The former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh used a network of fixers and the Belgian bank KBC to siphon millions of dollars out of his country. (Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Bank at heart of Gambian tyranny

An investigation reveals that a key Belgian institution is again involved in money-laundering

Burundi’s presidents on a mural.

Illegal ‘blood gold’ – from war-torn Sudan to your phone

New evidence tracks the sanctions-busting journey of the precious metal from the East African country to popular consumer products.

Leaked data from Mossack Fonseca

Military, political leaders behind murky Angola deepwater oil deals

Leaks from the Panama Papers reveal a web of intrigue about how companies got the rights to drill for oil.

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#PanamaLeaks: The Sicilian mafia’s Namibian ties

The leaks have revealed the mafia’s business connection with Zacky Nujoma, the youngest son of Namibia’s founding president, Sam Nujoma.

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Army’s untouchable business wing

Shadowy empire has billions in Namibian state contracts, but has never been publicly audited

Expenses paid: Namibia Airports Company chief Tamer el-Kallawi and businessperson Irene Simeon-Kurtz in Maputo.

Turbulence hits Namibia high-flyer

Claims of a dodgy deal, intimidating staff, and treating a girlfriend to a freebie follows airports boss

Namibia: Geingob’s next four years could make or break him

Swapo’s Hage Geingob swept to victory in Namibia’s recent presidential elections but internal divisions within the ruling party still haunt him.

Namibia’s ruling Swapo leads election results so far

Namibia’s ruling party, Swapo, is so far leading the election results in the vote counts done in six constituencies.

Nelson Mandela poses for photographers with singer Beyonce Knowles and other performers during a visit to Robben Island Prison near Cape Town

Landmark e-voting to go ahead in Namibia after court challenge fails

The high court ruling means that Namibia will be the first African country to use electronic voting machines in a general election.

Airports boss in corruption probe

Namibia’s prosecutions chief confirms that she has received a docket from the country’s anti-graft investigators