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African Union’s Anti-Corruption Stance: Renewal or Rhetoric?

For decades, declarations emerging from the African Union’s headquarters in Addis Ababa have oscillated between ambition and inertia. Each new statement targeting corruption, one of the continent’s most persistent governance challenges, is met by both citizens and observers with the same weary question: will this time be different? Recent rhetoric from the institution has once […]

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Mystery of a Phantom Presidential Council in Nigeria and Its Near-$1 Million Budget

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A bizarre case of alleged institutional impersonation has emerged in Nigeria, where a council claiming to operate under presidential authority reportedly secured a budget of nearly $1 million before questions were raised about its legitimacy. According to the government, the body was set up using a forged letter of appointment, a claim that has fueled

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Nigeria investigates fictitious ‘presidential’ agency accused of accessing public funds

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Nigerian authorities have opened an investigation into how a fictitious government agency, allegedly operating with forged appointment letters bearing the president’s name, managed to access public funds. The case has raised fresh concerns about oversight gaps in the management of state resources and the vulnerability of bureaucratic channels to impersonation. How the scheme allegedly operated

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Zambia’s 2026 General Election Takes Shape as a Referendum on Governance

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As Zambia moves closer to its 2026 general election, the political conversation is shifting away from traditional ideological divides and toward a more pragmatic question: how well has the government delivered for its citizens? Analysts and observers say the upcoming vote is increasingly being framed as a national evaluation of performance, public expectations, and political

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Calls on Boakai to Establish Liberia’s Anti-Corruption Court

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Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, the Supreme Court and the National Legislature to move decisively on the creation of a Specialized National Anti-Corruption Court, describing the proposed body as a critical missing piece in Liberia’s accountability architecture. Speaking in Monrovia on Tuesday, Sirleaf argued that decades of

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