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Posts Tagged: Uganda

East African nations closer to regional anti-graft protocol but divisions remain

Julie DiMauro July 3, 2014

Anti-corruption agencies in the countries of the East African Community are hoping to finalize a regional protocol to fight corruption but differences among member states are holding up the effort.

The signing of the East African Community Protocol on Preventing and Combating Corruption has been delayed mainly over whether the member states — Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda — will give prosecutorial powers to their respective anti-corruption agencies, the East African reported.

Freedom takes a hit

Richard L. Cassin May 12, 2014

Freedom House said in its latest report that 54 countries showed overall declines in political rights and civil liberties, compared with 40 that showed gains.

“For the eighth consecutive year, Freedom in the World recorded more declines in democracy worldwide than gains,” Freedom House said.… Continue Reading

The aid Africa needs most

Michael Ndichu Kuria September 17, 2013

In the prior post, I talked about steps governments in East Africa can take to lift the natural resource curse that plagues the region. Let’s look now at how extractive companies and foreign governments can also help make life better for millions of people.… Continue Reading

Healing the East Africa resource curse

Michael Ndichu Kuria September 16, 2013

There’s no silver bullet to overcome the natural resource curse that haunts much of the globe. But countries in East Africa, the region I am most familiar with, can take several practical and affordable steps to exploit resources in ways that will benefit citizens and put realistic development goals within reach.… Continue Reading

‘Resource curse’ still haunts Uganda, Kenya

Michael Ndichu Kuria September 4, 2013

Since discovering oil in 2009, Uganda has not pumped a single barrel and the resource remains unexploited. An historic opportunity has so far been stymied by bureaucracy, law suits, corruption, hostilities with neighbors taking on a military hue, as well as the lack of adequate infrastructure to move the oil to market.… Continue Reading

The plunder of foreign aid

The FCPA Blog December 19, 2012

“A little more than forty years ago, an observation was made that foreign aid was aid from the poor people of the rich countries to the rich people of the poor countries.… Continue Reading

Are conflict mineral rules hurting Africans?

Mark Friedman December 11, 2012

On a tarmac at Congo’s Goma Airport, customs agents seized a Gulfstream jet with millions of dollars in cash on board. Bricks of tightly-packed hundred-dollar bills were strewn about the cabin.… Continue Reading

Uganda repaying €4 million in stolen Irish aid

Richard L. Cassin November 5, 2012

Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs said the government of Uganda will repay €4 million that was diverted from an Irish aid package.

A report by the Irish Examiner said the Prime Minister of Uganda Patrick Amama Mbabazi ‘denied any knowledge of the fraud through his office and insisted none of the missing money was ever paid to him.’… Continue Reading

Reading, Writing, And Compliance

Richard L. Cassin February 14, 2012

A retired supreme court justice in Uganda has proposed anti-corruption training for citizens, starting with the school kids.

Professor George Kanyeihamba’s open letter to President Yoweri Museveni this week said the country’s Anti-Corruption Act of 2009 should be ‘compulsory reading for all Ugandans.’… Continue Reading

The Road To Corruption

Guest Contributor June 14, 2011

By Richard E. Messick

A new World Bank study on corruption in the roads sector shows the challenges contractors and engineering firms working in developing countries face when trying to avoid being drawn into schemes that violate the Foreign Corruption Practices Act or the anti-corruption laws of other nations or both.… Continue Reading

Alcatel-Lucent Settles Bribery Case

Richard L. Cassin December 28, 2010

In one of the biggest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act settlements of all time, Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent S.A. will pay $137 million for bribing officials in Costa Rica, Honduras, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

The company and three subsidiaries will pay $92 million to resolve criminal charges with the DOJ and $45 million in disgorgement to the SEC.… Continue Reading

Amid OECD Criticism, A Breakthrough In Britain

Richard L. Cassin October 19, 2008

The U.K.’s failure to prosecute its multinationals for overseas bribery, while other European countries and the U.S. are stepping up enforcement, threatens the integrity of the international anti-bribery effort. That’s what a fed-up OECD Working Group on Bribery says in its just-released report.… Continue Reading