Transparency, Accountability and Responsibility-Malawians Being Duped

29 April, 2008 02:30:00 (Nyasa Times)
Transparency, accountability and responsibility are three fundamental cornerstones of good corporate governance for any public organization. Talk to any accountant and they will assert that a good board of directors and top management team needs to safeguard transparency in their organization's dealings while concurrently ensuring accountability and responsibility for all transactions. Yet an assessment of the current regime in Malawi in this limelight points to glaring shortfalls in as far as good "corporate governance" is concerned.

Ivory Coast: Protests force Ivory Coast tax cuts

10th April 2008 (Aljazeera.net)
Ivory Coast has slashed the taxes on imported staple foods after two days of violent protests in the commercial capital Abidjan over rising prices.

Kenya: Taxation the only solution to inequality

According to old taxation theories, the most basic functions of a State are to protect the lives and property of their citizens from internal and external aggressors.
Naturally, the State requires resources to do this, and the most equitable way of getting the resources would be to tax people in accordance with the kind of protection they require.

DRC: Controversial EIB-backed mining project in the Congo to face contract

03 April 2008 (Bicusa.org)
DRC mining contract commission to push for a greater share in the Tenke Fungurume mining concession, one of the largest copper-cobalt deposits in the world. Critics charge that EIB's investment in the highly contested project before the conclusion of the contract review was "irresponsible

Kenya: UK probe fails to unravel Mobitelea

An investigation by the British government's Serious Fraud Office into the complex issue of Mobitelea's share of the Kenyan mobile phone giant Safaricom has not resolved the matter, it has been revealed.