South Africa// — Zambian authorities suddenly closed and cordoned off the courts without credible explanation on August 24, 2026, effectively blocking the filing of any legal challenges to the results of the August 13 presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately allow the courts to reopen.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has named former Power Minister Kwabena Donkor and four other individuals as its main persons of interest in its investigation into the Ghanaian dimension of the Asante Kweku Berko bribery case.
Cambridge professor Jason Arday was found dead at his home in London on Aug. 14, 2026, days after he resigned from his position amid accusations of plagiarism, which he had denied. Nordin Catic/Getty Images Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis After a meteoric rise to the top ranks of British academia, scholar Jason Arday was […]
A Pacific island’s president bypassed an official selection process when he chose an Indian company to reopen a multi-billion-dollar mine. He told OCCRP the firm’s managing director offered to pay for his wife’s kidney transplant but insisted it had “nothing to do” with the deal.
Group of Twenty economies have weathered another year of shocks, from energy price increases and persistent policy uncertainty to heightened protectionism. But this resilience should not obscure a deeper challenge: medium-term growth prospects remain weak.
Dhaka, Bangladesh//— To help safeguard the continuity of essential medicines and support job creation in Bangladesh, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group focused on the private sector, has committed a US$ 30.7 million senior secured loan to Popular Pharmaceuticals PLC (Popular), a leading manufacturer of generic medicines.
US government intervention to halt pressure on its Treasuries is a “temporary fix” which doesn’t address the real and intensifying issues, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations.
At least 350 aid workers were killed in 2025, one of the deadliest years on record, with more than half of those deaths occurring in the occupied Palestinian territory and one in five in Sudan, according to the Aid Worker Security Database, the leading global tracker of violence against humanitarian workers.
China’s new wave of AI hardware exports offers investors a hedge against Wall Street’s “dangerously circular” artificial intelligence trade, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and asset management organisations.
Sudan// — Nearly 39,000 children fled to the city of El Obeid in North Kordofan, Sudan, over the first six months of the year, escaping violence and attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure that have uprooted families across the state, Save the Children said.
