Tag: graft

EAST AFRICA : Kenya Railways boss feels the heat from anti-graft body

Months ahead of the scheduled delivery in June of six locomotives from Spain’s Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca, the procurement contract has already landed new Kenya Railways Corp (KRC) director Philip Mainga in the hotseat. Source link

Africa: Transparency in Extractives to Tame Graft Starts January

All countries subscribing to the global extractives initiative will effective January 1, 2021, have to publicly publish new and amended contracts signed with mining firms according to transparency disclosure requirements. Tanzania and Uganda are the East African countries subscribing to the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). EITI said Tanzania and Uganda are among 55 countries