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Africa CDC Supports the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Ebola Response Funding

eriinfo.com2 days ago04 mins

Kinshasa — The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) welcomes and supports the position of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, expressed through the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare, to strengthen transparency, traceability and accountability in the management of resources mobilised for the Ebola response. This…

Audit-ready EUC: Embedding accountability into asset workflows

eriinfo.com1 week ago012 mins

Vickash Bheem, Head of Technology at Nkgwete IT Solutions. Many organisations only discover weaknesses in their asset governance during an audit. By then, the problem may be months old and the people involved are being asked to reconstruct events that were routine at the time. Often, the issue isn’t that an asset is physically missing….

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Africa Does Not Have a Resource Crisis, It Has an Accountability Crisis

eriinfo.com5 months ago08 mins

When former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addressed African auditors in Monrovia this week, her central point cut through years of recycled development language. Liberia’s postwar recovery, she said, was never mainly about money or infrastructure. It was about governance. That statement deserves more attention than the conference applause it received. For decades, African countries have…

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Africa: Liberia Hosts Africa’s Top Audit Chiefs for Historic Five-Day Accountability Summit

eriinfo.com5 months ago07 mins

MONROVIA — Auditor General P. Garswa Jackson, Sr. opens Monrovia to 26 of Africa’s top financial watchdogs Monday, as Liberia hosts the continent’s most high-stakes public audit gathering for the first time in the GAC’s history. The assembly, convened under the African Organization of English-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions, known as AFROSAI-E, runs Monday through Friday…

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Africa: How War Weaponises Environmental Destruction and the Case for Legal Accountability

eriinfo.com6 months ago03 mins

This is the second article examining the environmental cost of modern warfare. The first article in the series explored war as a powerful, compressed engine of pollution. Here we ask a harder question: when environmental destruction is not incidental, but deliberate, should it be declared a crime against the Earth? Read part one Environmental lawyer…

Family of Palestinian-American man killed in West Bank demand accountability

eriinfo.com8 months ago01 mins

Nasrallah Abu Siyam was the sixth American citizen killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers in the West Bank in the last two years.

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Africa: Nigeria’s Path to Fiscal Transparency and Accountability

eriinfo.com10 months ago06 mins

Abuja — The World Bank today released the Fiscal Governance Reform in Nigeria: Lessons from the State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability Program (SFTAS), a report reviewing one of Nigeria’s most significant subnational fiscal reform initiatives. The report offers an in-depth analysis of how the SFTAS Program, implemented between 2018 and 2022, strengthened fiscal transparency,…

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Africa: DA Calls for Accountability As Dangerous Weapons Remain On South Africa’s Streets

eriinfo.com10 months ago03 mins

The Democratic Alliance reiterates our call for urgent accountability as the continued loss and theft of state-owned firearms fuels violent crime across the country. More concerning is the scale of these failures. A DA parliamentary question revealed that a total of 170 SAPS-owned firearms were reported as lost or stolen from police armouries over the…

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Africa: From Culprit to Solution Provider – Financing Africa’s Sustainable Universal Healthcare Through Environmental Accountability

eriinfo.com11 months ago012 mins

Africa Must Pay Its Health Debt — Before the Planet Collects Africa’s most significant health crisis isn’t the next virus. It’s the quiet epidemic of polluted rivers, contaminated soil, and sick people left behind by decades of industrial neglect. From Ghana’s Galamsey pits to the oil-blackened streams of the Niger Delta, the continent has become…

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Africa: TINA Rolls Out Anti-Iffs Policy Tracker to Boost Accountability in African Tax Systems

eriinfo.com12 months ago08 mins

Johannesburg — The Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) has officially rolled out its new Anti-Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) Policy Tracker Tool, a collaborative tool or an innovative digital system designed to strengthen accountability, evidence-based advocacy, and learning across Africa’s tax and fiscal policy landscape. The policy tracker was also launched in partnership with the African…