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West African Investigative Journalism Conference fully booked
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19 August 2010
The West African investigative journalism conference, to be held on 30 and 31 August in Cotonou, Benin, is fully booked and has had to close for any new registrations. "The venue can't accommodate any more. We were flooded with registrations, particularly from people who came with good work that we can showcase", said FAIR secretary general Gerard Guèdègbé. "Next time we will hire a bigger venue."
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FAIR announces African Investigative Journalism Awards 2010
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17 August 2010
FAIR has opened its African Investigative Journalism Awards 2010 for entries. Colleagues are invited to send in their best investigative stories -print or broadcast-, published between 1 July 2009 and 1 July 2010. The deadline for submission of entries is 30 September. The winners will be announced at the African Investigative Journalism Conference 2010.
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FAIR grants brochure 2009-2010 published
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13 August 2010
Slave labour in Zambia's mines, various kinds of cheating in Kenya, schoolgirl marriages in Benin and Ivory Coast's 'smoking rooms' are only a few of the issues FAIR Grant recipients have tackled over the 2009-2010 cycle.
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East African regional IJ conference: pirates, terrorists and soccer mismanagement
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11 August 2010
FAIR will hold its East African regional investigative journalism conference on 2 and 3 September in Kampala, Uganda, in partnership with the capital's Makerere University. At the occasion, FAIR will showcase the latest work done by East African FAIR members: inter alia on pirates, terrorists and soccer mismanagement. The University will introduce its new investigative journalism curriculum.
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Islamist Group al-Shabaab Terrorizes Somalia
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01 August 2010 The new american
Hussein Moulid Bosh
The Islamist armed group al-Shabaab is subjecting inhabitants of southern Somalia to killings, cruel punishments, and repressive social control.
People accused of being traitors or government sympathizers, “often on flimsy pretexts,” face execution or assassination. Al-Shabaab fighters have threatened many people with death simply because they lived in government-controlled areas of Mogadishu.
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Rwandan war financier’s dirty business in Nigeria
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July 2010 Saturday Sun, Nigeria
Emmanuel Mayah
Tobacco tycoon and suspected war financier, Tribert Ayabatwa Rujugiro, has been allowed to do business in Nigeria in the face of evidence of smuggling and fraud, as well as in the face of his reputation as a financier of former DRC rebel leader Laurent Nkunda. Rujugiro is also wanted by the tax authorities in South Africa for tobacco fraud. His operations, set up in Nigeria from 2003, have not created production or employment so far.
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Mozambican state supported narco-trafficking for two decades
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05 June 2010 CIP Newsletter
Marcelo Mosse
The naming by the White House of the owner of the Maputo Shopping Centre, Momed Bachir Suleman (MBS), as a man involved in narco-trafficking, symbolizes the fall of a mask that the Mozambican state had been supporting for more than two decades. MBS is a businessman from northern Mozambique who in the mid-1990s, at the height of the liberalization of the economy, began to prosper by selling state-of-the-art electrical appliances in a market that was thirsty for electrical goods sold for remarkably cheap prices. Bachir, it is said, had a modest past selling printed fabrics (“capulanas”) in small shops.
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ACR awash with cash but no revenue
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May 2010 The Insider
Charles Rukuni
African Consolidated Resources, a Zimbabwean mining company, has not earned a single cent since it listed on the London Alternative Investment Market four years ago. But it is awash with cash. The company has raised more than 20 million pounds through floating shares.
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Sowetan investigation - Ousted Safa bosses’ plan to loot R500m
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29 April 2010 Sowetan
Cecil Motsepe
Khoza and co were to share 2010 riches
OUSTED SA Football Association executives, including Orlando Pirates boss Irvin Khoza and Molefi Oliphant, were set to pocket more millions from the proceeds of the Fifa World Cup taking place in 42 days’ time.
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Kenya rail deal fails
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17 March 2010 Mail and Guardian (SA)
Adriaan Basson
An Eastern Cape businessman is at the centre of a probe by Kenya's Parliament into the collapse of the multimillion-dollar Kenya-Uganda railway privatisation deal.
Roy Puffett, owner of Port Elizabeth-based aviation, rail and marine company Sheltam, led the Rift Valley Railways (RVR) consortium that was awarded the 25-year concession in October 2005 to revamp the railway system. Five years later, Puffett and Sheltam are gradually withdrawing from the contract, having sold 49% of their stake to Egyptian investment firm Citadel Capital.
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EFCC expects Hoddle, Lagerback testimony
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17 March 2010 Next
Olukayode Thomas
The Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, said it is determined to investigate the allegation of graft in the process that led to the selection of a coach for the country’s Super Eagles soccer team.
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Rwanda splurges on luxury jets
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14 February 2010 Sunday Times
De Wet Potgieter and Raymond Joseph
SA-registered company was set up to conceal ownership of aircraft
The cash-strapped Rwandan government has splurged millions of rands on two ultra-luxury passenger jets to fly its president and VIPs around the world - and tried to hide ownership of the jets behind a South African-based company.
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Ex-presidents' club doesn't pay its bills
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14 February 2010 Sunday Times
Rob Rose
Mandela withdraws patronage after dictator's 'free' plane trip
Nelson Mandela has withdrawn permission for his name to be used to promote an exclusive club of 37 former African presidents, known as the Africa Forum, amid allegations of fraud.
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