February 18, 2022
Namibia: A Voice for the Voiceless of Namibia - Award-Winning Editor
Gwen Lister is a renowned Namibian journalist with a storied career. Known for her efforts to fight apartheid in Namibia, Gwen became the first female editor of a southern African… Read more »
January 24, 2022
Angola: Web of Corruption Around Isabel dos Santos Still Being Untangled
The Pandora Papers shed new light on the offshore dealings of powerful figures close to Angola's former president who were recently sanctioned by the U.S. Read more »
December 09, 2021
Angola: U.S. Sanctions Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos for Corruption
ICIJ’s 2020 Luanda Leaks investigation revealed how decades of inside deals turned dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s longtime former ruler, into Africa’s… Read more »
December 01, 2021
Seychelles: Massive Money-Laundering Probe Heartens Anti-Corruption Activists but Fails to Lift Pandora Papers' Pall Over Seychelles
The African tax haven, recently removed from the EU’s blacklist despite uproar, is prosecuting its first major money laundering case against an influential couple who feature… Read more »
October 03, 2021
Kenya: Kenyatta's Secret Offshore Wealth Revealed
The Kenyatta family has ruled one of Africa's largest economies for decades. But to the Swiss advisers who helped them funnel wealth into tax havens, they were 'Client 13173'. Read more »
September 11, 2021
Angola: German State-owned Bank Fined for Angolan Loan Exposed in Luanda Leaks
KfW-Ipex-Bank, an import-export bank, had loaned more than $55 million through an Angolan bank to a brewery controlled by Isabel dos Santos. Read more »
August 05, 2021
Angola: Isabel dos Santos Ordered to Return to Angola U.S.$500 Million in Shares 'Tainted by Illegality'
Isabel dos Santos, at one time the wealthiest woman in Africa, must surrender one of her last remaining major assets, a stake in the Portuguese energy company Galp worth an… Read more »
July 28, 2021
Africa: Lesotho Joins Senegal, Zambia in Dropping 'Unfair' Tax Treaty After Mauritius Leaks
Officials in Lesotho had joined a chorus of African authorities complaining that agreements with tax haven Mauritius were bleeding their governments of much-needed tax… Read more »