Korruption & Misswirtschaft
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11.04.2024
Simbabwe Simbabwe hat schon wieder eine neue Währung (mehr) |
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20.02.2024
Nigeria Kenya William Ruto and Bola Tinubu: Africa's 'flying presidents' under fire (mehr) |
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16.01.2024
Nigeria AFRIKA/NIGERIA - Vorsitzender der Bischofskonferenz: “Korruption ist außer Kontrolle geraten (mehr) |
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10.11.2023
Nigeria Nigerias Präsident sorgt mit Millionenausgaben für Ärger in der Bevölkerung (mehr) |
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02.11.2023
Nigeria Nigeria's House of Representatives reject plan to buy presidential yacht (mehr) |
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29.10.2023
Congo Congo spent seven-times over budget on Francophone Games (mehr) |
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04.09.2023
Gabun Palastrevolte in Libreville (mehr) |
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02.09.2023
Gabun Ali Babas Höhle in Gabun: Schwindelerregende Millionenbeträge entdeckt (mehr) |
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12.07.2023
Mosambik Mosambiks Ex-Finanzminister an die USA ausgeliefert (mehr) |
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11.07.2023
Äthiopien Abiy Ahmed lässt sich einen milliardenteuren Palast bauen (mehr) |
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12.06.2023
Südafrika Kein Licht am Ende des Tunnels (mehr) |
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12.06.2023
Simbabwe Wie man 100 Millionen Dollar Schwarzgeld wäscht (mehr) |
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10.06.2023
Nigeria Nigerias Inlandsgeheimdienst nimmt Zentralbankchef fest (mehr) |
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05.06.2023
Congo GiveDirectly loses $900,000 in DRC mobile cash fraud (mehr) |
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05.06.2023
Ethiopia WFP leadership in Ethiopia resigns amid aid diversion probe (mehr) |
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03.05.2023
Zimbabwe Bona Mugabe owns Dubai mansion (mehr) |
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24.04.2023
Sudan Schmuggelgeschäfte mit dem Kreml und eine Mine namens Schweiz (mehr) |
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27.03.2023
Uganda Iron sheets scandal has top government officials on a tightrope (mehr) |
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28.02.2023
Südafrika Auf dem Weg zum Gangsterstaat (mehr) |
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07.12.2022
Uganda Who paid the price for Uganda’s refugee fraud scandal (and who didn’t)? (mehr) |
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27.11.2022
Kamerun Seit 6.11.2022: Paul Biya herrscht in Kamerun seit 40 Jahren (mehr) |
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25.11.2022
Malawi Malawi vice president arrested over corruption, says graft watchdog (mehr) |
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16.11.2022
Côte d’Ivoire Trafic de cocaïne (mehr) |
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10.10.2022
Afrika Afrikas Seehäfen: Den Sumpf der Korruption trockenlegen (mehr) |
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18.09.2022
Kongo "Unmoral und Inkompetenz“ (mehr) |
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18.09.2022
Gabun Oppositionspolitiker Guy Nzouba Ndama bei Rückkehr aus dem Kongo mit 1,8 Mio. Euro in Geldkoffern im Auto festgenommen (mehr) |
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23.08.2022
Nigeria USA geben Nigeria 23 Millionen Dollar zurück, die Diktator Abacha geraubt hatte (mehr) |
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20.07.2022
Africa Timber trafficking: The hidden history of looting (mehr) |
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22.06.2022
Africa Swiss commodities giant Glencore pleads guilty to bribery charges in Africa (mehr) |
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09.06.2022
Südafrika Wie die Gupta-Brüder in Südafrika die Strippen zogen (mehr) |
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27.05.2022
Gambia How ex-Gambia President Yahya Jammeh's US mansion was seized (mehr) |
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08.05.2022
Afrika Afrika, der reiche Kontinent – und ein Hort der Ungleichheit (mehr) |
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27.04.2022
Afrika Fünf Länder besitzen mehr als 50% des Privatvermögens des afrikanischen Kontinents (mehr) |
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26.04.2022
Elfenbeinküste Holzhandel in der Elfenbeinküste: Die Affäre, die den Sturz von Alain-Richard Donwahi beschleunigte. (mehr) |
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19.04.2022
South Africa Ramaphosa’s ‘step aside’ rule for corrupt ANC leaders ‘not working’ says key ally (mehr) |
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21.03.2022
Nigeria Want to be president? Here is how much it will cost you… (mehr) |
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08.03.2022
Kenya Designation of Former Nairobi Governor Sonko for Involvement in Significant Corruption (mehr) |
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13.02.2022
Eswatini Ein Königreich für einen Rolls-Royce (mehr) |
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12.02.2022
Senegal Präsident schenkt Afrikameistern satte Prämie und Grundstücke (mehr) |
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24.01.2022
Malawi Malawi’s president dissolves cabinet over corruption allegations (mehr) |
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06.01.2022
South Africa South Africa's Zondo commission report: Scandal, bullying and fear (mehr) |
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05.01.2022
Africa Corrupt political and financial elites collude to steal public funds (mehr) |
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11.12.2021
Angola Angolan Billionaire Isabel Dos Santos Hit With US Sanctions For 'significant Corruption' (mehr) |
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19.11.2021
DR Congo Data leak: Millions transferred to Joseph Kabila allies (mehr) |
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03.10.2021
Kenya Pandora Papers: Uhuru Kenyatta family's secret assets exposed by leak (mehr) |
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01.10.2021
“Die Korruption ist das System” (mehr) |
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28.09.2021
Südafrika Der schwierige Kampf gegen Korruption (mehr) |
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12.09.2021
Zimbabwe etc. British American Tobacco negotiated bribe for Mugabe, new evidence suggests (mehr) |
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01.09.2021
G5 Sahel Scandale financier au G5 Sahel (mehr) |
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27.08.2021
Südafrika Tödliche Schüsse auf südafrikanische Informantin in Korruptionsskandalen (mehr) |
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24.08.2021
Mozambique Mozambique 'tuna bond' scandal: Ex-President Guebuza's son on trial (mehr) |
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24.08.2021
Mozambique Mozambique 'tuna bond' scandal (mehr) |
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23.08.2021
Nigeria Hochzeit in Nigeria (mehr) |
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22.08.2021
Nigeria Nigeria's royal wedding: Private jets, glitz and glamour (mehr) |
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01.08.2021
Äquatorialguinea Äquatorialguinea25 Luxusautos, eine 100-Millionen-Jacht und ein Stadtpalais in Paris – doch der afrikanische Playboy hatte das alles gestohlen (mehr) |
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30.07.2021
Angola Isabel dos Santos ordered to return $500 million in energy shares to Angola (mehr) |
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28.07.2021
Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue and his love of Bugattis and Michael Jackson (mehr) |
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24.07.2021
Uganda Outrage after Uganda MPs get $30m to buy cars amid COVID crisis (mehr) |
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23.07.2021
Eswatini Afrikas letzter absoluter Monarch (mehr) |
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11.07.2021
Kamerun Paul Biya: Kameruns Präsident erneut auf dem Weg nach Genf (mehr) |
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15.06.2021
Afrika Warum afrikanische Präsidenten nach ewiger Immunität streben (mehr) |
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13.06.2021
Malawi Expulsion of Diplomats From South Africa (mehr) |
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30.05.2021
Africa Africa's political dynasties: How presidents groom their sons for power (mehr) |
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18.05.2021
Nigeria James Ibori: UK returns $5.8m stolen by ex-governor to Nigeria (mehr) |
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12.05.2021
Nigeria $153 million, 80 houses recovered from Diezani — EFCC boss (mehr) |
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07.04.2021
South Sudan Corruption claims spark new concerns about aid to South Sudan (mehr) |
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07.03.2021
Nigeria Why Buhari’s government is losing the anti-corruption war (mehr) |
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03.03.2021
South Africa How Zuma uses war metaphor ... (mehr) |
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27.02.2021
Südafrika Südafrikas Ex-Präsident (mehr) |
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26.02.2021
Togo Bolloré Group fined €12 million in Togo corruption case (mehr) |
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19.02.2021
South Africa South Africa’s president fights own party over corruption (mehr) |
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18.02.2021
Südafrika Fünf vor acht / Korruption in der Corona-Pandemie (mehr) |
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14.02.2021
Nigeria Ganoven schlagen illegalen Gewinn aus der Pandemie (mehr) |
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12.02.2021
Zimbabwe Mugabe’s business empire (mehr) |
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28.01.2021
Nigeria Sani Abacha - the hunt for the billions stolen by Nigeria's ex-leader (mehr) |
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28.01.2021
Afrika Afrika-ABC in Zitaten: Korruption (mehr) |
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19.01.2021
Angola Ein Jahr nach den Luanda Leaks: Kehrt Isabel dos Santos zurück? (mehr) |
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15.01.2021
Switzerland ‘There may be God up there, but not me,’ says Beny Steinmetz (mehr) |
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04.01.2021
Südafrika Leopardenfell gegen Richterrobe (mehr) |
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06.12.2020
Ghana Wahl in Ghana - Krokodil gegen Alligator (mehr) |
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02.12.2020
Algérie Rafik Khalifa : des milliards à la prison d’El Harrach, la déchéance d’un golden boy algérien (mehr) |
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23.11.2020
Zimbabwe Mnangagwa’s capture of judiciary a red flag for state failure (mehr) |
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20.11.2020
Africa African Union: Theft, intimidation, nepotism allegations against AU body (mehr) |
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16.11.2020
Africa How Western companies undermine African democracy (mehr) |
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16.11.2020
Malawi „PROPHET“ SHEPHERD BUSHIRI: Wunderprediger auf der Flucht (mehr) |
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11.11.2020
Südafrika Haftbefehl für ANC-Generalsekretär (mehr) |
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11.11.2020
Egypt Egypt poll recalls Mubarak-era political corruption (mehr) |
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09.11.2020
Somalia Italian NGO pulls out of Somalia due to ‘systematic fraud’ (mehr) |
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15.10.2020
Angola Angola’s anti-corruption crusade tide turns against João Lourenço (mehr) |
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07.10.2020
Südafrika Korrupte ANC-Politiker verhaftet (mehr) |
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29.09.2020
Afrika Afrikanische Staaten verlieren 89 Milliarden Dollar jährlich durch illegale Kapitalflucht (mehr) |
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25.09.2020
Congo DRC Illicit DRC gold: London Bullion Market must do more to stop it (mehr) |
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24.09.2020
Kenya Kenya officials accused of Covid-19 corruption (mehr) |
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16.09.2020
Mauretanie Mauritanie, la saisie des fonds de l’ex Président Aziz (mehr) |
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16.09.2020
Afrika Afrikas Schuldenlast drückt immer schwerer (mehr) |
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08.09.2020
Afrika Die große Abzocke bei Rüstungsdeals (mehr) |
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02.09.2020
South Africa Coronavirus in South Africa: Misuse of Covid-19 funds 'frightening' (mehr) |
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23.08.2020
South Africa Ramaphosa: ANC deeply implicated in corruption (mehr) |
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20.08.2020
Mauretanie L’incroyable liste des détournements de l’ex Président Aziz (mehr) |
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14.08.2020
Angola José Filomeno dos Santos: Son of Angola's ex-leader jailed for five years (mehr) |
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06.08.2020
Niger How a Notorious Arms Dealer Hijacked Niger’s Budget and Bought Weapons From Russia (mehr) |
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04.08.2020
Südafrika Die Korruptionsskandale des ANC (mehr) |
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29.07.2020
Afrika Wie Corona und Korruption einander begünstigen (mehr) |
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27.07.2020
Südafrika Korruptionsskandal um Coronahilfe erschüttert Südafrika (mehr) |
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27.07.2020
Congo ‘Ebola business’ concerns resurface as new Congo outbreak spreads (mehr) |
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20.07.2020
Deutschland BMZ-Brief zu Korruption (mehr) |
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17.07.2020
NIgeria Nigeria’s EFCC boss suspended from office following secret tribunal (mehr) |
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09.07.2020
Republic of Congo THE CYCLE OF KLEPTOCRACY: A CONGOLESE STATE AFFAIR (mehr) |
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07.07.2020
RDC Où sont passés les millions de la lutte contre le coronavirus? (mehr) |
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06.07.2020
RDC Le lanceur d’alerte Claude Mianzuila détenu à Mbuji-Mayi (mehr) |
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04.07.2020
Nigeria Instagram star flaunted lavish lifestyle but was actually conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars, US prosecutors say (mehr) |
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04.07.2020
Kenia Korruption untergräbt den Kampf gegen Covid-19 (mehr) |
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24.06.2020
Niger Affaire audit - Ministère de Défense Nationale (mehr) |
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23.06.2020
3rd World We know more about fraud and abuse in aid. It’s time to stop it. (mehr) |
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21.06.2020
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe anti-corruption body starts audit of the rich (mehr) |
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21.06.2020
Kongo Harte Strafe für Kabinettschef im Kongo (mehr) |
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20.06.2020
Zimbabwe Coronavirus: Zimbabwe health minister in court on corruption charges (mehr) |
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18.06.2020
Afrique Ces jets privés qui transportent les Présidents africains malgré l’épidémie (mehr) |
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18.06.2020
Congo How ‘Ebola business’ threatens aid operations in Congo (mehr) |
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11.06.2020
Congo Congo aid scam triggers sector-wide alarm The New Humaniarian ‘We did not see this coming. Not to this scale.’ Philip Kleinfeld, Correspondent and Editor, Africa About this investigation: This is the story of how aid funds believed to total several million dollars were diverted from displaced people and vulnerable communities in a scam that shocked senior humanitarian officials and exposed deep-rooted problems with the way aid organisations fight corruption in Congo and beyond. In an investigation that spanned more than nine months, TNH traced the anatomy of the scam using leaked documents and interviews with fraud ringleaders, aid workers, IDPs, and anti-corruption specialists. Our reporting explores the impact such scams may have on the future of communities and aid organisations working in one of the world’s longest-running humanitarian crises. GOMA & KALUNGU, The Democratic Republic of Congo When four Congolese business owners were caught trying to bribe a Mercy Corps worker with bags of cash in November 2018, staff members at the international NGO were shocked. But the organisation was about to make an even bigger discovery: a multi-layered aid scam that was siphoning off money – aid officials think millions – meant for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s most vulnerable. The scam – known about by aid organisations since late 2018 but made public for the first time now, after a more than nine-month investigation by The New Humanitarian – involved corrupt aid workers, business owners, and community leaders. Together, they zeroed in on the humanitarian sector’s flagship rapid response programmes – the main mechanism for helping displaced people in Congo, where hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid are spent every year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- At a glance: Aid diversion in Congo $639,000 was lost over several months in a multi-layered fraud scheme discovered by Mercy Corps Around $6 million may have been lost to multiple aid organisations over two years, aid officials say Staff members allegedly involved in the scheme were let go by Mercy Corps, but some now work at other aid organisations Rapid response programmes were most affected, including the UN-administered RRMP An anti-fraud taskforce formed by aid groups has commissioned an operational review into corruption in humanitarian aid; UNICEF is conducting a forensic audit Anti-corruption specialists call for more funds devoted to counter-fraud measures Systems used to provide aid have remained too static over Congo’s 25-year crisis, aid officials say, opening the way for fraud Similar systems are used in other countries After the November 2018 incident, Mercy Corps launched an internal investigation into the scam. The probe lasted nearly a year and found evidence that while the NGO had been affected since early 2018 – roughly the same time it began doing rapid response – similar schemes had most likely been in play for more than a decade and affected multiple NGOs doing rapid response programmes that use the same UN guidelines. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some $639,000 was lost by Mercy Corps and partners in just a few months – including $65,000 by the Danish Refugee Council – TNH found after obtaining leaked documents and interviewing more than a dozen Mercy Corps staff members, the scam’s ringleaders, aid officials, and aid recipients.* A senior Mercy Corps official, who was involved in the investigation but asked not to be named, believes other aid agencies that were part of the Rapid Response to Population Movement (RRMP) programme lost $6 million in around two years. This figure was not included in the NGO's final investigative report. When a conflict or natural disaster occurred, aid groups would receive reports from local community leaders that exaggerated the number of people who had fled their homes. Business people would then pay kickbacks to corrupt aid workers to register hundreds of additional people for cash support who were not actually displaced. The merchants would then receive the aid payments and share with the local leaders. Of the 19 Mercy Corps aid workers alleged to be involved in the scam, some were using the extra cash to buy new cars, Armani glasses, and iPhones, according to several of their colleagues who spoke to TNH. One even started building a hotel, colleagues said. The only criminal punishment anyone in the scam has faced to date is one night in prison after shoving an aid worker during an altercation over fraudulent payments. Real displaced people caught in Congo’s endless wars said the scheme was galling. “To think that aid was there, and people were stealing… it is awful,” said Miridi Basiraye, the leader of a group of internally displaced people in Kalungu, a town in eastern Congo. Kalungu, a town in eastern Congo where thousands of displaced people are living, is one location where complicit business owners are known to have taken part in fraudulent aid schemes on several occasions in 2018. The complexity of the scam and collusion between different parties have stunned seasoned aid workers, who are more used to dealing with small-scale corruption involving staff members and beneficiaries. They have also triggered counter-fraud specialists to call for major reforms to the way humanitarian organisations operate, in Congo and beyond. The fraud scheme showed how, after some 25 years, humanitarian aid in Congo is no longer just a lifeline for those fleeing conflict but an opportunity – for local power brokers, business owners, and aid workers at both international and local organisations – to cash in on the country's endless wars. ‘We did not see this coming’ During the year the fraud scheme was discovered, Congo’s humanitarian situation was classified as a “level three” crisis – the gravest classification possible – putting the country on a par with Syria and Yemen. Yet the multi-million dollar budget was shrinking for the RRMP, the largest rapid response programme and one of the biggest aid programmes overall in Congo, helping millions of conflict-affected people every year. Investigators concluded that the speed of rapid response programmes – which provide NGOs with advance financing to respond to population movements soon after they occur – meant few efforts were made to check who was being registered as displaced and where millions of dollars of aid money were ultimately going. Have a tip for an investigation? But, while rapid response was targeted, the systems that proved most vulnerable to abuse were widely used in other relief programmes, suggesting that fraud ran much deeper within the humanitarian sector after more than two decades of aid organisations delivering assistance in much the same way. The initial discovery of the scheme was not easy news for Mercy Corps to break to its donors. “We did not see this coming,” said Whitney Elmer, the aid group’s country director in Congo. “Not to this scale.” Business owners, who played a key role in the fraud, gave Mercy Corps investigators the names of nine other aid agencies – in addition to Mercy Corps and the Danish Refugee Council, which said it had launched an internal review but provided few details – allegedly affected by the same scheme, in some cases providing details of complicit aid workers and timelines of their involvement. Five of the nine – which TNH is not naming as the allegations could not be fully substantiated – said they had conducted investigations but found nothing. Of those that disclosed details of their investigations, none, however, had looked as far back as Mercy Corps did – over a decade – and most only spent a few weeks on the ground making inquiries. Two said they did not conduct investigations because they had not received sufficient evidence to suggest they were implicated. One said it was not aware of the case, and another did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Following the discovery of fraud within Mercy Corps’ programmes, however, aid agencies did join forces to launch an anti-fraud taskforce and commissioned an operational review – backed with a £200,000 grant from the UK's government aid agency, DFID, which funded RRMP until it was brought to a close last year – examining the integrity of humanitarian assistance in Congo. A 70-page draft version, circulated among aid groups last month and seen by TNH, does not take a position on the findings of the Mercy Corps investigation, but it does describe many of the same schemes: exaggerated reports of displacements, collusion between aid workers and local communities, and distributions of aid to ineligible beneficiaries. The alleged fraudsters, meanwhile, were eventually fired or had their contracts terminated by Mercy Corps, officials at the aid group told TNH. The NGO did not share the names of those former staff members with other aid groups because it believed doing so would violate Congolese labour law, the officials added. At least three of the alleged fraudsters told TNH they had since joined other international NGOs. Although RRMP was brought to a close late last year after funding dwindled, other rapid response mechanisms are still used almost every day. A market day in Minova, where business owners complicit in the fraud lived and made profits from the scam that were far higher than they would normally earn. A ‘particularly striking’ scale of alleged collaboration and collusion In its investigation, Mercy Corps, one of the larger aid operators in eastern Congo, interviewed more than 220 staff members, business owners, local leaders, beneficiaries, and members of militia groups who provided corroborating details about the fraud scheme. The mark was always the same: rapid response programmes. First introduced in 2004, the system proved well suited to Congo, where sudden-onset violence often catches aid groups off guard. Instead of waiting for donors to fund a conflict or natural disaster response, aid groups got advance supplies and money to respond far quicker. Several rapid response mechanisms were created over the years, comprising a large chunk of Congo’s annual humanitarian funding, now worth more than $1 billion. Similar systems have been rolled out to crisis-affected countries around the world. Aid officials said the focus on speed meant organisations cut corners, heightening corruption risks in a country that the global watchdog Transparency International says is among the world’s most corrupt. But executing the scheme involved a degree of collusion – from senior aid workers to the chiefs of far-flung villages – that few aid workers saw coming. First, community leaders who were trained by aid organisations to report displacement numbers would provide exaggerated – or in some cases entirely fabricated – accounts of emergencies that meant cash aid was diverted to areas where it wasn’t fully needed. Illustration of voter card With aid officials convinced that hundreds, even thousands, of extra people were in need of assistance, business owners – heavily involved because of their economic status and access to credit – would next offer members of local communities who were not displaced $10 for their voter cards. For each card, which functioned as an ID, the business owners would then pay an extra $50 per name to aid workers who took part in the scheme and would ensure the names on the cards were added to a database of people in need of assistance. On distribution day, the false beneficiaries – or someone representing them – would arrive with their voter cards, take the cash aid or vouchers with a monetary value of $120 on average, and hand it back to the business owners, who would pocket tens of thousands of dollars between them for each individual intervention. “The manipulation of beneficiary lists is really common in the sector,” said Oliver May, former head of Oxfam’s anti-fraud unit. “What is particularly striking here is the scale of collaboration and collusion that has been alleged.” ‘These NGOs are helping people who aren’t actually in need’ The fraud took place in different parts of eastern Congo, investigators found, but its centre of gravity was the town of Minova – a small commercial hub in South Kivu, one of Congo’s most conflict-torn provinces. The town’s proximity to the sprawling city of Goma – where complicit business owners often had commercial interests, and where aid organisations had offices – made it ideal for the fraudsters. Read our related investigation → EXCLUSIVE: Leaked review exposes scale of aid corruption and abuse in Congo Minova and the neighbouring town of Kalungu are also home to thousands of displaced people, who live in camps that pockmark the emerald-green hills or are crammed into the houses of host families who are often just as poor as their guests. TNH spoke with a woman who said she arrived in Kalungu in January 2018, after fleeing clashes between different militia groups that she said cost the lives of more than a dozen of her friends around a cluster of villages known as Ziralo. With no fields of her own to farm in Kalungu, she found work transporting firewood, earning just over $1 a day to feed six children. When Mercy Corps arrived, she said she received aid alongside others who were not displaced. Seeing the fraud made her angry. “We felt terrible,” said the woman, whose name is being withheld over security concerns. “We said… these NGOs are helping people who aren’t actually in need.” But, as a guest in another community, she feared her family might be asked to leave if they reported or criticised the wrongdoing. “We were living in terror,” she said. The fraudsters had no such dilemmas. “When I heard about this opportunity, it brought me many ideas,” said one complicit shopkeeper who spoke to TNH on condition of anonymity and said she would earn $400 on a normal month. “Paying for my children at school… paying doctors when they get sick.” Complicit business owners – six of whom spoke with TNH – had varying income levels. One made $500 on a good month selling food and clothes – not much for her 14 children; another made $1,000 shipping goods from town to town. All said they borrowed hefty sums from local loan sharks and family members to afford the bribes and to rent voter cards – key components of the scam. With far more money up for grabs than they would normally earn, the debt was worth accruing. But the business owners and aid workers weren’t the only ones to benefit. Money was shared with influential community leaders and even armed groups, generating a steady interest in manipulating aid at all levels, the Mercy Corps investigation found. “One of our assumptions of why this did not come out earlier is that many people were probably benefiting in one way or another,” said one senior Mercy Corps official, who asked not to be named. A family of internally displaced people build a new shelter at a camp in MinovaPhilip Kleinfeld/TNH A family of internally displaced people build a new shelter at a camp in Minova. Thousands of people have fled to the town and surrounding ones in recent years due to clashes between armed groups. ‘People know how to game the system’ Shortly after its investigation started in late 2018, Elmer said Mercy Corps took a risk: it alerted other NGOs whose names had been mentioned by the business owners, as well as the wider humanitarian community in Congo. “Given we believed others may be affected, we wanted them to be aware and be able to look into these issues on their own,” Elmer said. It was an unusual step for a humanitarian organisation – which has no obligation to report fraud to anyone but its donors – allowing other NGOs to join forces under the sector-wide anti-fraud taskforce. Elmer said it was necessary because most of the rapid response processes used by the NGO were drawn from UN guidelines that all humanitarian organisations doing rapid response and other emergency aid programmes in eastern Congo also used. The rigged alert system to communicate displacements – spearheaded by the UN’s aid coordination agency, OCHA – was not just used for rapid response, for example, but was the basis on which “more broadly, humanitarian response interventions are launched”, said Elmer. Aid groups said its manipulation raised questions over how often displacement figures had been exaggerated, how many interventions had been launched on misleading information, and how many times populations in genuine need had missed out on assistance. Beneficiaries had also become overly familiar with questionnaires used in rapid response and other programmes to determine people’s eligibility for assistance. When asked questions – size of family, number of children – people would often lie to ensure they received maximum support. Mercy Corps officials and anti-corruption analysts said the case shows what can happen when long-suffering communities – known colloquially by some aid workers in Congo as “professional beneficiaries” – have years to figure how relief programmes work, and how to rig them. “Aid organisations have been running the same for years,” said François Grünewald, director of France-based URD, an independent think tank that analyses practices and policies in the humanitarian sector. “People know how to game the system; they know it by heart.” ‘Are cases like this the starting point’ for change? UNICEF, which was the custodian of RRMP, has recently launched a forensic audit of several NGOs in Congo involved in the programme. COVID-19 restrictions have slowed down progress, but a final report is expected in October. Some aid officials said UNICEF, which designed many of the processes of RRMP, should have launched the audit much sooner. UNICEF’s country representative, Edouard Beigbeder, said he wished the process had gone quicker. New York-based investigators from UNICEF’s internal oversight body, OIAI, did conduct an investigation in March 2019, but Beigbeder told TNH in a February interview that they had not shared the results with his team in Congo, leaving him unable to confirm whether the fraud discovered was isolated to Mercy Corps, or systemic. A UNICEF spokesperson said OIAI “worked together” with the Congo office to review the Mercy Corps investigation. RRMP was brought to a close last year with donor support dwindling. Aid officials and donor sources told TNH the decision to pull funds was related to the fraud discovery and UNICEF’s slow response. Beigbeder said this was not the case, adding that the programme needed “reinventing” after losing some of its effectiveness. Mercy Corps – which is still doing rapid response – said it has developed a new scoring system that measures the credibility of alerts, and has added additional controls to its monitoring systems. Other NGOs doing rapid response work said they have also changed their systems, but they generally provided less detail. UNICEF said it is designing a new rapid response programme with a “quicker response time” than before; senior aid officials told TNH that was a bad idea. The operational review found that rapid response has weakened the quality of aid delivery and recommends aid groups reduce their “reliance” on it. Aid officials said other rapid response mechanisms still being used in Congo are now prioritising compliance over speed. But those officials added that the change has come at a cost: aid is now arriving more slowly to the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by conflict in recent months. The operational review also concludes that while the taskforce that was set up has decreased the “taboo” around discussing corruption, aid groups remain reluctant to share information that might help each other combat the problem. Aid officials from NGOs involved in the taskforce have urged that more money be put into anti-corruption measures – a call that has been widely echoed by experts. As one of the larger NGOs in terms of staff numbers, Mercy Corps was ideally placed to investigate the fraud. Other NGOs said they have fewer resources to spend on compliance and risk management. Often, it takes such a loss to shake some humanitarian organisations into action, said May, the former head of Oxfam’s anti-fraud unit who now works at Deloitte. Miridi Basiraye, the chief of IDPs in Kalungu, said the fraud scheme has made it difficult for newly displaced people to receive aid. Oxfam, for example, was turned inside out after a newspaper revealed that the aid organisation had covered up an investigation that found staff working in Haiti had sexually exploited victims of the 2010 earthquake by visiting sex workers. “It took the sector-wide sexual abuse crisis for safeguarding to start to receive anything like the level of resource that was really needed for the sector to manage that risk,” May told TNH. “What’s it going to take for fraud? Are cases like this the starting point for that?” In Kalungu, where fraudsters struck multiple times, some corrupt officials have been fired, residents and civil society organisations said, but displaced people keep coming – only now, they feel nobody believes them. Basiraye, the new chief of IDPs in Kalungu, held up a scrappy piece of paper listing displaced people who had arrived in the town since August – victims of one of the many complex conflicts that Congo just can’t stop producing. On a nearby table sat two of them: Zawadi Makorani, a 41-year-old farmer with nine children who needed food, clothes, and soap to wash; and Evariste Bendera, another father of nine kids, whom he said he couldn’t always feed. Few of the newly displaced had received support since arriving, Basiraye said. He insisted with increasing intensity that the numbers on his list were “not a lie” and the people at the table behind him were “absolutely refugees”. “The Bible says that it’s wrong to steal,” he said. “But now… we are asking again: please help us.” *TNH contacted Danish Refugee Council twice before publication of the story but was told each time the investigation into the missing money was still pending. After publication the NGO said it contested Mercy Corps' findings as “unsubstantiated” adding that they had not yet been asked to pay back the money. |
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