Ethics and Anti-Corrup­tion Commission chief executive Twalib Mbarak (left) with Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji. The anti-corruption commission and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations are on the spot for “frustrating” private developers through the placement of caveats on land suspected to have been acquired irregularly. The investors, according to cases filed in court, are

The Sun Newspaper The wife of Dubai’s ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum has left him and taken £31 million to start a new life, it is understood. Princess Haya, who had not been seen since February, is said to have fled to Germany with her son and daughter. She is understood to have immediately

Photo /AFP Eritrean officials are systematically harassing diaspora activists in Kenya, with apparent collusion on the part of Kenyan intelligence agents, Amnesty International said in a briefing on Thursday. In 2015, two persons who identified themselves as members of Kenya’s National Intelligence Service ordered Kenya-based Eritreans not to proceed with the launch in Nairobi of

Photo (AP) Draft proposal suggests few changes from previous Ethiopian plan endorsed by protesters but rejected by military. Sudan’s ruling military council has said a proposal submitted by the African Union (AU) and Ethiopia received on June 27 is suitable for the resumption of talks with the opposition on a transition to democracy.The generals of

Twenty petitioners have moved to the High Court seeking to compel the State to withdraw from a maritime delimitation case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Kenya was sued at the court by Somalia in August 2014 over a contested 62,000 square miles oil-rich triangle in the Indian Ocean. The petitioners, under Kinoti and

Photo/Reuters Attention to strong language in paragraphs five and six. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened opponents with prison if they try to impeach him, the latest in what a top U.N. official and an Asian lawmakers’ group this week called a pattern of persecution and assaults on free speech. Duterte vented his anger late

Muslim ban has nothing to do with national security, says Maryland senator The Muslim ban in the U.S. continues to have a “devastating” impact on nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, and on their families many of whom are U.S. citizens and Green Card holders, a new report revealed. Georgetown University’s “Muslim Ban”

People are prevented to enter a security area after an explosion in Tunis, Thursday June 27, 2019. The Tunisian Interior ministry said one police officer has died in the suicide bombing targeting a police patrol in a busy commercial street in central Tunis. (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi) Twin suicide attacks targeting security forces struck Tunisia’s capital

U.S. President Donald Trump talks about the United States imposing fresh sanctions on Iran before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was “not talking boots on the ground” should military action be necessary

Corruption and corporate malfeasance, often in the form of white-collar crime, is alive and kicking in the private sector. It may not be as pervasive as in the public sector but it is prevalent, especially where the pickings are rich. Where there are accountability requirements, they can often be kept under wraps with the usual