Blacklisted in Japan for radiation fraud, dogged for fifteen years by conflict of interest allegations tying it to Kenya’s biggest car importer, accused of siphoning billions from Kenyan motorists through inflated fees, and now stripped of a Tanzanian contract for operating without basic diagnostic equipment, Quality Inspection Services Japan has survived every scandal that should have ended it. The question Kenyan authorities still refuse to answer is why.
He is the only man from an entire regional bloc of over four hundred million people to sit on Forbes’ real time billionaires list, and for over a decade nobody has seriously challenged the number. Mohammed “Mo” Dewji, chief executive of Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania Limited, has been valued at between two point one and two […]
Leaked loan documents, bank records and whistleblower accounts reveal how the former Nilepet Managing Director allegedly pressured subordinates to borrow USD 1 million in the national oil company’s name, then routed the funds through a subsidiary to his wife’s private account to construct a hospital in a Juba property linked to a UN-sanctioned general. Now Afriland First Bank is preparing to sue the subsidiary he left holding the debt, while Amuor poses as a governance reformer.
For years, warning signs have accumulated over the management of South Sudan’s oil revenues. Resources that should have sustained a population enduring one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises have instead disappeared through opaque networks linked to a small circle of senior officials and their intermediaries. Neither the authorities in Juba nor the international […]
By Peter M. Akol There have been a lot of rumors and conjecture around the person and alleged actions of First Daughter Adut Salva Kiir, who also serves as the Senior Presidential Envoy on Special Programs. Her appointment to the position raised quite a storm, and the president’s haters tried to use it against him, […]
Explosive claims by Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi surface as Hassan Sheikh Mohamud makes an unannounced visit to Kenya amid a fierce legitimacy crisis back home.
The more consequential and far better-documented matter is the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s election-materials tender, routed through South African printing firm Ren-Form CC.
How Jayesh Shah a phantom tycoon with no public face and an empire spanning three continents quietly became the man the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe cannot live without, cannot fully audit, and apparently cannot refuse.
A former Ugandan mayor and lawyer representing detained opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who is on trial for treason, has himself been charged with a treason-related offence. Erias Lukwago appeared before a magistrate’s court in the capital Kampala looking visibly weak, local media reported, days after he was arrested at his home. He denied the charges […]
Taiwan has accused Kenya of yielding to “Chinese pressure” after its officials were reportedly blocked from participating in an international maritime event held this week. The controversy centres on the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, where Taiwan says its delegation was detained and restricted despite being officially invited to attend. China, which considers self-ruled Taiwan […]
She holds no ministry, commands no army, and answers to no constitution. Yet Adut Salva Kiir Mayardit, the president’s eldest daughter, has quietly constructed the most consequential power centre in South Sudan: a private revenue empire that drains the national treasury, a political machine that disposes of inconvenient officials, and a succession project that treats one of Africa’s most traumatised countries as a family inheritance. The abduction of a whistleblower from Nairobi’s streets is the latest and most brazen symptom of a regime that has decided secrecy is worth any price. This investigation names the people behind it, traces the money, and asks the questions that South Sudan’s silenced press cannot.
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