Politics / Corruption

Funds from hidden sources are warping democracy with increasing and devastating effect. Peter Geoghegan follows the money.

Report from Belarus by Natalia Kaliada.

Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and inequality. But will the country’s future see it regain the sparkle its diamonds offer to the rich?

Two years since the murder of an Italian student in Cairo, the Egyptian regime has yet to acknowledge the nature of its involvement writes Yohann Koshy.

Political gatherings will be met with heavy-handed security from state-owned paramilitary groups; and the independence of civil society and media will be greatly restricted. Claire Elder reports on the status of Somaliland.

Is Operation Car Wash the world’s biggest corruption scandal? By Vanessa Baird