Des membres de la famille et des proches de l’ancien président congolais Joseph Kabila ont tenté de mettre la main sur trois banques constituant ensemble le quart du secteur bancaire du pays, affirme mercredi un communiqué de l’organisation The Sentry, spécialisée dans l’investigation sur la corruption en Afrique. L’enquête de The Sentry met en lumière […]

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Le clan de l’ancien président congolais a cherché à prendre le contrôle de plusieurs banques congolaises, entre 2013 et 2017, avec l’aide d’associés angolais et chinois. Ce sont les conclusions d’un rapport de l’ONG américaine The Sentry, cofondée par George Clooney. « Kwanza Capital » : ce nom ne dira rien à la plupart des […]

On Wednesday, May 22, the Africa Center partnered with The Sentry at the Enough Project to host a discussion on illicit finance operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), occasioned by the release of the group’s new report: Covert Capital: The Kabila Family’s Secret Investment Bank. The panelists discuss how Kabila and his allies […]

On Wednesday, May 22, the Africa Center partnered with The Sentry at the Enough Project to host a discussion on illicit finance operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), occasioned by the release of the group’s new report: Covert Capital: The Kabila Family’s Secret Investment Bank. Ms. Bronwyn Bruton, Africa Center director of programs and […]

The Sentry révèle plusieurs indicateurs de blanchiment d’argent, des signes de certaines entreprises ayant reçu de dollars dans des fonds détournés. Pour lutter contre le blanchiment, le département du Trésor américain et les services européens de renseignement financier, vont enquêter sur les relations bancaires décrites dans ce rapport lit-on… Click here to read the full […]

Une nouvelle enquête menée par The Sentry et publié le 22 mai à Washington révèle que des membres de la famille et des alliés de Joseph Kabila, l’ancien président de la République démocratique du Congo, ont tenté de prendre des participations dans trois banques distinctes, qui forment ensemble plus d’une banque. Le rapport d’enquête publié […]

Uganda’s unregulated and yet booming real estate sector is currently under threat, providing a haven for money laundering from foreign investors who seek to take advantage and invest illicit money in the sector. Calls on government to regulate the sector in order to curb the vice are yet to bear fruit, even as the sector […]

He is one of the richest people in Belgium, but many of his fellow countrymen have never heard of him. The Antwerp gold trader Alain Goetz has expanded his empire abroad, including to Uganda, but his success raises big questions. Belgian newspaper De Standaard went to gold mines where children work and saw documents that link Goetz […]

South Sudan will run a balanced budget this year and its economy will rebound as oil production rises and a peace deal progresses, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday. The oil-dependent economy, ruined since civil war broke out six years ago, shrank 1.5 percent in 2018. The country relied on international donors to fill […]

Sudan’s military rulers faced pressure from demonstrators and Western governments to hand power to a new civilian government Monday, April 15, as activists warned of an attempt to disperse a 10-day-old mass protest outside army headquarters. Thousands remained camped outside the complex in Khartoum overnight after protest leaders issued demands to the military council set […]

The Sentry’s Co-Founders George Clooney and John Prendergast called for warnings by international financial institutions to prevent illicit capital flight from Sudan by the former dignitaries of al-Bashir’s regime. The two U.S. activists said this measure will provide strong international support for Sudanese people to achieve change in Sudan after 30 years of oppression by […]

The ouster of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir should be a moment for celebration: one of the world’s worst villains, driven from power after waves of popular protest. Ideally, after a few weeks of house arrest spent hearing from the families of people he had tortured and murdered, he should be sent off to the International […]

Sudanese General Awad Ibn Ouf, who led the overthrow of veteran leader Omar al-Bashir and has emerged as the country’s new ruler, is already under US sanctions for his alleged role in the brutal Darfur conflict. In a sombre televised statement on Thursday, Ibn Ouf announced the ouster of Bashir, who ruled the northeast African […]

CNNi talks to human rights activist John Prendergast of the Enough Project about events in Sudan. Click here to watch the video on CNN.com.

Only one day after Sudan’s longtime autocratic ruler, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, was ousted by his own defense minister — a close ally — the defense minister announced on state television that he was stepping down as head of the transitional government and would be replaced by yet another military leader. The move was seen […]

The legitimacy of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi is being tested following the failure of his party to win a single Senate seat, and the decision by the US to impose sanctions on electoral officials who presided over his victory. On March 22, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions […]

Världsstjärnan, skådespelaren och filantropen George Clooney och hans hustru, människorättsadvokaten Amal Clooney, är på tillfälligt besök i Sverige. Enligt Aftonbladets tidigare uppgifter ska paret delta i Postkodlotteriets förmånstagarmiddag i kväll. Men under makarnas blixtvisit i Stockholm har de också passat på att träffa den svenska utrikesministern Margot Wallström, skriver hon i en kommentar på Twitter som Aftonbladet tagit del av. […]

The Washington-based Enough Project criticized US officials holding meetings with Sudanese officials in Addis Ababa and Khartoum this month to discuss investment in Sudan. The Chargé d’affaires of the US Embassy in Sudan hosted a meeting with Sudanese officials in the attendance of representative from Baker Hughes, an oil field services company majority owned by […]

South Sudan is planning to increase oil production to 270,000 bpd by the end of 2019, the country’s Minister of Petroleum and Mining, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth said. Speaking on the sidelines of a conference in India last weekend, the minister said South Sudan is working to return to its pre-war production levels of 350,000 bpd […]