17 June 2009                                                                          The Namibian 

John Grobler 

NAMIBA Wildlife Resorts (NWR) has leased the Von Bach recreational resort for 100 years to an empowerment company called Tungeni Africa Investments – without the NWR having the clear legal right to do so, an investigation by The Namibian has established.

 08 June 2009                                                                           Next (Nigeria)

Musikilu Mojeed and Festus Owete 

For a clinic that caters only for the health needs of the president and the vice-president and their families, plus the staff of the State House, the addition of 10 new ambulances at a time when even the National Hospital, Abuja, regarded as the nation's topmost, has only nine, raises serious questions about the ways of government.

What was supposed to be a retirement benefit for 62 of Namibia’s freedom fighters, imprisoned on Robben Island during the apartheid era, has turned into a legal quagmire in the wake of the collapse of United States-based WexTrust and its South African and Namibian affiliates.

25 May 2009                                                                            UNDP Watch

Charles Rukuni

UNDP admits vehicles registered in its name were used to smuggle diamonds

The United Nations Development Programme has finally admitted that vehicles registered in its name were used to smuggle diamonds from River Ranch Mine near Beitbridge into South Africa but claims that the vehicles were fraudulently registered

1 April 2009                                                                                   Business Daily

Steve Mbogo

Security firms are reaping from increased investment in crime detection and protection services by businesses and community groups amid fears that job losses caused by the economic slowdown would spawn a new wave of petty, violent and organised crime. 

The economic slowdown has come at a time when inflation pressures, fuelled by the increase in price of food, electricity and fuel have eroded the purchasing power of personal incomes.

3 March 2009                                                                               IRIN

KERICHO, 3 March 2009 (PlusNews) - Underpaid and living in poor conditions far from home, tea pickers in Kenya's vast plantations are trying to boost their income by selling sex.

28 February 2009                                                                          The Times

Bongani Mthethwa

SA becomes net importer of food as vast tracts of land lie fallow. South Africa’s food security is threatened by its chaotic rural land reform programme. Thousands of once-productive farms, mainly in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape, lie abandoned and are causing serious shortages of staple foods.

06 February 2009                                                          Mail and Guardian, South Africa

Controversial facilities management group Bosasa lavished flights and luxury hotel stays on former prisons boss Linda Mti -- while it landed prisons contracts worth more than R1-billion.

The mutually beneficial relationship between Bosasa and Mti, now head of security for the 2010 Local Organising Committee, is laid bare by travel records in the Mail & Guardian’s possession.

16 January 2009                                                                         IPS

Wambi Michael

Illegal trade and overfishing in Lake Victoria have led to fish scarcities in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Large quantities of illegally traded unprocessed fish, especially Nile perch and tilapia, may be finding their way to export markets in the European Union (EU).

13 October 2008                                                               The Guardian (UK)

Robert Booth

Criminal syndicates are earning more than $10bn a year from a booming environmental crime business in rainforest logging, the trade in endangered animal skins and ivory and smuggling canisters of banned gas refrigerants.