Christiaan Keulder

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People wait for a meeting with Guinea's military junta, led by Col. Mamady Doumbouya, at the people's palace in Conakry, Guinea, on Sept. 15, 2021. Guinea's junta is expected to face more pressure to set a time frame for new elections, following the president's overthrow in a coup on Sept. 5. (Sunday Alamba/AP)

MundoÁfrica

While South Africa, Senegal and Mauritius are very different societies, one thing they have in common is that surveys show their citizens are increasingly unhappy about the way their democracies are working.

Another is that huge majorities in recent Afrobarometer surveys say corruption in their country is increasing.

These parallel trends aren’t a coincidence. Afrobarometer’s 48,084 face-to-face interviews in 34 African countries in 2019-2021 suggest that as people see levels of corruption rising in their key governing institutions, they grow increasingly dissatisfied with their democracy.

In the fifth installment of our series in the run-up to December’s Summit for Democracy, we explore the extent of perceived corruption and its corrosive effects on democracy across Africa.…  Seguir leyendo »

People line up at a food distribution site in Pretoria, South Africa, on May 20. (Themba Hadebe/AP)

MundoÁfrica

Corruption is as old as power and as current as the morning headlines, in Africa as in the rest of the world. South Africa continues to wrestle with the fallout of “state capture” — systemic political corruption by private interests — during Jacob Zuma’s presidency.

Namibians are gearing up for the high-profile #Fishrot trial involving two ministers accused of accepting bribes from an Icelandic company in exchange for lucrative fishing rights in Namibian coastal waters. Allegations of corruption involving coronavirus relief pour in from Zimbabwe, Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria and other countries.

Analysts estimate that developing countries lose $1.26 trillion per year to corruption, theft and tax evasion — enough to lift 1.4 billion people above the poverty line for six years.…  Seguir leyendo »