Every year, an estimated $88.6 billion, equivalent to 3.7% of Africa’s GDP, leaves the continent as illicit capital flight, according to UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa Report 2020 ..read more

On September 28, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a $1.8 million whistleblower award, issued to “a company outsider, who expeditiously reported significant information to the Commission about ongoing securities law violations.” The award is the 100th whistleblower award granted in the history of the SEC Whistleblower Program ..read more

In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic confirmed a cruel form of American exceptionalism—the country’s exceptionally poor performance in handling the virus as measured in deaths and infections. Neither flag waving nor flyovers can mask other American failures, including climate change indifference, tolerance for gun violence, inadequate health care, gross income inequality, systemic racism and other ailments. We’ve got some serious issues to address ..read more

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the President would instead use the remainder of his term to fight corruption in government ..read more

President Zelenskyy heads to Brussels next week for the twenty-second annual EU-Ukraine Summit with bilateral ties at their most strained since the signing of a landmark Association Agreement in 2014. The relationship between Ukraine and the European Union has become significantly stronger during the past six years, but backsliding by the Zelenskyy government in Kyiv on key anti-corruption measures is now sparking concern among Ukraine’s European partners over the country’s future direction ..read more

Huge sums of money flowing out of Africa through corrupt practices and illegal means are robbing the continent of billions of dollars and hampering efforts aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, a new UN report said ..read more

As of Sept. 1, each seller’s page on Amazon.com must now display the respective seller’s name and address. This new seller transparency policy, announced by Amazon on July 8,, brings some of Amazon’s U.S.-based practices into conformity with policies in other jurisdictions, including Europe, Japan, and Mexico. It also comes on the heels of record-setting online retail sales and the restructuring of traditional retail as we know it ..read more

Deputies from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s party on Monday proposed a law that would make spreading fake news on social media punishable by up to four years in prison, government sources said ..read more

Hackers have penetrated the computer systems of the UK’s foreign ministry and taken hundreds of files detailing the country’s controversial propaganda programmes in war-torn Syria ..read more

Walking into the Tel Aviv office of Israel National Cyber Directorate Head Yigal Unna, you immediately notice a very specific memento – a very weighted plaque with a golden plate that he was awarded by his counterparts in the United Arab Emirates.  Unna was part of the historic delegation that traveled to Abu Dhabi last month after the landmark peace deal between Israel and the UAE was announced, and the plaque sheds light on the deep cyber and technological ties between the two countries ..read more