03 Feb 2023 ( Newagebd.com ) Emerging Bangladeshi artists have addressed corruption, social, environmental concerns and others in the sixth Dhaka Art Summit under way at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The theme of the biennale art summit, which began on Friday, is Bonna. More than...
26 Jan 2023 ( New Lines Magazine ) How a violent conflict in the resource-rich Niger Delta has wrought ecological and economic devastation for a generation As the three women from Otuabagi tell it, the Niger Delta’s woes began with a simple yet consequential misunderstanding. The European engineers...
02 Feb 2023 ( CSMonitor ) Two surveys cite successful struggles for honest governance and why humanity must focus on curbing corruption – perhaps even in space. It is a mark of progress in honest governance that a few experts are starting to ask this question: Do national...
03 Feb 2023 ( Rapid City Journal ) Most of the world continues to fail to fight corruption with 95% of countries having made little to no progress since 2017, a closely watched study by an anti-graft organization found. Transparency International's 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the...
27 Jan 2023 ( France24 ) Bernard Laporte on Friday resigned his role as president of France's rugby union federation after being convicted of corruption, the sports minister said. "I can confirm that Bernard Laporte has resigned," Amelie Oudea-Castera told reporters after a meeting of the federation's top officials. Laporte,...
26 Jan 2023 ( NBC News ) A cellphone video shared widely on social media shows a woman jumping up and down as she unwraps a gift. Inside the box is a red piece of paper, which she waves at the camera in excitement. “It’s a permit for...
18 Jan 2023 ( The Guardian ) Ten Chinese players have been charged with match-fixing offences by snooker’s governing body, the WPBSA, whose chairman Jason Ferguson described the situation as “heartbreaking”. All 10 players currently suspended from the World Snooker Tour have been deemed to have cases to answer by...
23 Jan 2023 ( The Guardian ) Ukraine’s deputy infrastructure minister, Vasyl Lozinskyi, has been detained and dismissed from his post for allegedly stealing $400,000 (£320,000) intended for purchasing aid, including generators, according to Ukraine’s state anti-corruption detectives and prosecutors. After the news emerged, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy,...
23 Jan 2023 ( nytimes.com ) Prosecutors say Charles McGonigal, who was chief of counterintelligence in the city, took payments from Oleg Deripaska to investigate a rival Russian oligarch. A former high-level F.B.I. official has been indicted on charges that he conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Russia...
21 Jan 2023 ( Africa News ) Son of Equatorial Guineas president, Ruslan Obiang Nsue, has been arrested and placed under house arrest on suspicion of selling a plane belonging to the country's national airline, state television (TVGE) said Tuesday. At the end of November, the authorities had...