Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
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Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
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Julie DiMauro
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Shruti J. Shah
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Russell A. Stamets
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Richard Bistrong
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Eric Carlson
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The World Bank debarred a Chinese engineering and construction company Wednesday for eighteen months for fraud involving a project in Zambia.… Continue Reading
The World Bank debarred a Chinese electrical equipment company Wednesday for 20 months for fraud involving a power project in Zambia.… Continue Reading
Two senior managers of the China Roads and Bridge Construction Company were arrested in Kenya for allegedly giving bribes to highway authority officials to cover up the use of overloaded trucks.… Continue Reading
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa witness the signing of the Colombo Port City Project in September 2014 (Image courtesy of CCC)Sri Lanka this month became the latest of at least five countries to shut down huge China-backed infrastructure and telecoms projects tainted by allegations of corruption.… Continue Reading
China walked away from a deal to buy 1.2 million tonnes of rice from Thailand after Thai authorities launched a corruption probe into a controversial subsidy to rice farmers.
Thailand’s commerce minister told reporters Tuesday that China lacked confidence in the arrangement after the National Anti-Corruption Commission in Thailand began to investigate the country’s rice-buying scheme.… Continue Reading
Joyce Banda, President of MalawiMalawi’s Director of Public Prosecutions said he has a blank check to pursue officials implicated in the so-called ‘cashgate’ scandal in which millions of dollars are missing from government accounts.… Continue Reading
The Zambia government has terminated a $210 million closed circuit television camera contract with China’s ZTE because of alleged corruption.
A government source told AllAfrica last week that if the contract for traffic control had continued, Zambia could have lost $100 million through inflated billings.… Continue Reading
Rupiah Bwezani Banda, 76, says his opponents are on a political witch hunt (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)Former Zambian leader Rupiah Banda has been arrested and charged with abuse of power over a controversial oil deal.… Continue Reading
The temptation when writing about corruption is to focus on statistics and policy details instead of people — both the victims and the heroes.
But Laurence Cockcroft leaves math and wonkiness behind (no small feat for an economist) and delivers a great narrative.… Continue Reading
