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Africa loses nearly $89bn a year in illicit financial flows such as tax evasion, a United Nations study has showed. The figure is higher than what the continent receives in Official development assistance. A report released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on Monday calls Africa a ‘net creditor to the world’. The export of commodities such… Read More

Major Ashif is tense as he watches from the turret of his armoured vehicle as the muddy road in front of him slowly unwinds. His is the lead vehicle in a UN escort shepherding a convoy through northwest Central African Republic (CAR), one of the world’s poorest and most violent countries — and the thick undergrowth on either side of… Read More

Former Sierra Leonian president Ernest Bai Koroma has been banned from leaving the country. A probe instituted by his successor Julius Maada Bio has accused Koroma and several other officials of his government of corruption. Koroma was president was president from 2008 to 2017. Watch our report: Read More

“Misbehaviour,” the new film starring Keira Knightly and Gugu Mbatha-Raw was released in the U.K. in early March, just a few days before the UK went into lockdown mode due to the coronavirus pandemic. But Mbatha-Raw says the delay may have allowed the film to become even more timely. “I feel like almost more than ever, the film has become… Read More

Didier Drogba has been named as the recepient of the 2020 UEFA President’s Award. The former Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker was hailed as a “pioneer” by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin. “Didier is a hero to millions of football fans for his achievements throughout his glittering playing career,” Ceferin said via a UEFA statement. “I will remember him as a… Read More

A top French appeals court ruled today to transfer the trial of alleged Rwandan genocide financier Felicien Kabuga to a UN tribunal in Tanzania. Kabuga, who is 84 but claims to be 87, was arrested in May at his home outside Paris after 25 years on the run. In 1994, the Rwandan genocide of some 800,000 (eight hundred thousand) people… Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into claims of alleged sexual exploitation and abuse in the context of the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The actions were allegedly perpetrated by individuals identifying themselves as working for WHO during the epidemic. WHO says “anyone identified as being involved will… Read More

In “Blood on the Wall,” two documentary directors offer a deeper look at the migrants who have made their way from various parts of Central America to the Mexico and U.S. border. Academy Award-nominated director Sebastian Junger and Emmy-winning producer Nick Quested also examine how corruption in Mexico and other Central American countries has fueled the problem. “I don’t think… Read More

Once, it was just the jobless young men who set off from Tunisia’s rocky northern beaches for Sicily, usually defying their parents in hopes of a better future. Now Tunisian families, even those with work or seemingly good prospects, are following that path across 130 kilometres of open water. Nearly 10,000 since the beginning of the year and far more… Read More

Residents of the Diepsloot township, Johanesburg, South Africa have no electricity so most of them are forced to install illegal lightning rods to be able to live with power. But the authorities have however now come to tear out these illegal electricity connections. Eskom technicians were in Diepsloot on Tuesday morning to remove illegal electricity connections. It said that it… Read More