ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has ordered an inquiry into allegations his interior minister stole cash from public programmes, including compensation for victims of a toxic waste dumping, the president’s spokesman said on Monday.
Read More Africa, allegations, interior, ivory, ivory-coast, Laurent, minister, president, result, spokesman, TOXICSouthern Africa Worst Hit by Global Crisis, to Recover Slower May 24 (Bloomberg) — Southern Africa, the region of the continent hit hardest by the global credit crisis, will also be the slowest to recover, expanding about 4 percent this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said. Read more on Bloomberg Ethiopia polls [...]
Read More allegations, ethiopia, fraud, pollsTUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia rejected on Thursday allegations from human rights campaigners that a new law setting out tough penalties for conspiring to harm the country’s economy would suppress free speech.
Read More allegations, campaigners, country, economy, tunis, tunisiaNAIROBI (Reuters) – A junior Kenyan minister stepped aside on Friday after he was named among a group of lawmakers being investigated over allegations of involvement in drug trafficking.
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