“IMHO”: THE MAGIC TRIANGLE

The 1st Regional Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance was held in Cape Town, South Africa, last month.  Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International, addressed the event, and...

AMERICAN JOURANLIST DETAINED

December 11, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" Authorities detained Patrice Nganang, a Cameroonian-American academic and columnist, as he attempted to fly to Zimbabwe from Douala -...

SLAVERY 2017: UN’S WEAK RESPONSE

December 8, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" SLAVERY IN 2017 Yesterday, the UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted a feckless Presidential Statement on reports of migrants being sold into...

AFRICAN IN BLOOMBERG 50: UPDATE

  An update to our report that Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote is the only African on the Bloomberg 50 list of this year's most influential...

A FIRST FOR USA/AFRICA JUSTICE

  Restitution funds were given by the US Department of Justice to a young South African victim of a crime. The funds were seized from...