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  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

BAE Systems’ fine dilemma

Confusion still surrounds British arms company BAE Systems’ failure to make its promised ex-gratia payment of £29.5 million (US$45.6 mn.) to Tanzania, as part of a global settlement in 2010 ending several corruption investigations into the company by Brit...

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

No EITI for UK

Britain is refusing to follow United States President Barack Obama in joining the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Asked why Britain would not take part, even though EITI was originally a British idea sponsored by Premier Tony Blair in 2002,...

  • Vol 52 No 15
  •  22nd July 2011

The radar scandal is back

After Westminster MPs lambast BAE over the radar saga, questions about the accountability of Tanzanian officials remain

  • Vol 52 No 15
  •  22nd July 2011

David meets Jacob

Accusations of corruption against police chiefs, plans for state interference with the media and innuendo about politicians compromised by business associates – British Prime Minister David Cameron and South African President Jacob Zuma seemed to have eno...

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Bellingham brings warrants

Britain’s Africa Minister Henry Bellingham was in Nairobi ‘promoting British interests’, officials said. However, few expected that to include delivering extradition warrants for two prominent Kenyans for fraud and money-laundering.

  • Vol 52 No 9
  •  29th April 2011

Getting (not too) tough on corruption

British companies fear that more rigorous laws on bribery could undermine their efforts to compete with Asian and European rivals

  • Vol 52 No 3
  •  4th February 2011

Gamal Mubarak's retreat

Gamal Mubarak, Egyptian presidential son and putative heir (until he announced on 3 February that he would not stand for President) of beleaguered President Hosni Mubarak, was widely rumoured to be in London last week. Demonstrators - convened, as in ...

  • Vol 52 No 3
  •  4th February 2011

Less bashing for bribers

UK businesses lobbying against the new Bribery Act seem to be having some success (see Confidential Agenda, week ending 28 January). The government has postponed implementation of the Act, already delayed for six months, until June. The Ministry of Jus...

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

Sanctions fraying fast

As Harare steps up pressure for the European Union to abandon its sanctions on Zimbabwe, it has emerged that a British-based bank has found a legal way to circumvent the ban on loans to President Robert Mugabe’s allies. According to the Reserve Bank of Zi...

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Khartoum's most wanted

The first test for the International Criminal Court's 12 July arrest warrant for genocide against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir is his visit to Ndjamena this week. Chad ratified its ICC membership in 2006 and is legally bound to arrest him. Before...

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