CORRUPTION: Billions in Angolan Oil Money Missing – Report

More than four billion dollars went missing from government coffers in oil-rich Angola from 1997-2002, says a leading human rights watchdog, pointing the finger at officials' wrongdoing.

ARGENTINA: Rotten Apples

In Latin America, there have been abundant examples of corruption cases brought to light by the press.

CANADA: Export Agency Must Stiffen Bribery Sanctions – Report

The Canadian agency that underwrites large-scale export projects must adopt tougher rules against bribery by client companies, says a report by a trade union anti-corruption group affiliated with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

INDIA: Political Will to Fight Corruption Lacking – Activists

India was one of 95 countries that signed the United Nations Convention Against Corruption this month, but activists at home say the political will to investigate corruption - let alone trace its proceeds to secret accounts abroad - is missing.

CORRUPTION-PARAGUAY: Supreme Court Dismantled

''We're going to exterminate the Supreme Court,'' said then-president-elect Nicanor Duarte Frutos in Paraguay as he launched his offensive last May against the corruption-riddled court.

CORRUPTION: A First U.N. Treaty to Fight a Global Vice

"Put your faith in justice and do not commit sin so as not to cause corruption," says the Koran. More than a thousand years after these words of wisdom were written, the world is putting together the first convention against corruption, an ill that consumes as much as 10 percent of global GDP each year.

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Series of Scams Leaves Government Unfazed

For a party that came to power in 1998 vowing to root out corruption, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has performed pretty dismally and with general elections due next year, the boot is now clearly on the other foot.

LATIN AMERICA: Give Us This Day Our Daily Corruption

To give a "gratuity", a "kite", or a "diego" is how small pay-offs are described in Latin America. These small bribes, say experts, are an everyday occurrence that has become rooted in the region's culture - and violates a brand-new United Nations convention.

ECONOMY-KENYA: Officials Fight Graft and Woo Investors

After years of being labeled as highly corrupt, Kenya has put a number of measures in place to curb graft.

POLITICS-INDIA: Hidden Camera Fells Another Ruling Party Stalwart

Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered a setback amid heated campaigning for state elections after a party leader, filmed allegedly receiving bribes to facilitate mining rights, was forced to resign as junior environment minister on Monday.

FINANCE: Groups Fear Canadian Funding for Romanian Mine

The World Bank's refusal to help fund a Canadian company's controversial development of a huge open pit gold mine in Romania has raised concerns the Canadian government will step in with money.

CORRUPTION-ZIMBABWE: Land Grab Turns Sour

The 'fast track' land grab and resettlement the Zimbabwean government claims to have completed 'successfully' has been described as one huge national scandal.

POLITICS-INDONESIA: Polls Next Year, But Election Season Is Here

The flags of the various political parties flapping in the wind here are putting the whole spectrum of political opinion on display ahead of next year's key elections in Indonesia.

PARAGUAY: Four Supreme Court Justices Face Impeachment

The first step was taken Monday towards the start of impeachment trials in parliament for four of the nine members of Paraguay's corruption-tainted Supreme Court.

POLITICS: U.N. Probes Office that Guided Anti-Corruption Treaty

A United Nations agency that brokered a much-ballyhooed international treaty against bribery and corruption is now being investigated for misconduct and financial irregularities in its own backyard.

CORRUPTION-NIGERIA: Money Launderers Will Be Hung Out to Dry

The proficiency of Nigeria’s drug traffickers and fraudsters has earned the country an unhappy reputation – that of being a money-laundering haven.

POLITICS: Bush Cronies Hit Jackpot in Iraq, Afghanistan

Some 70 U.S. companies with good connections to the Bush administration have won at least eight billion dollars worth of reconstruction contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past two years, an independent research group said Thursday.

CORRUPTION-PARAGUAY: Supreme Court Begins to Crumble

The resignation of two Supreme Court judges in Paraguay Monday hastened the process of overhauling the Court, while parliament prepared to hold impeachment trials for four of the nine remaining magistrates on corruption charges.

ARGENTINA: NGOs Campaign for Clean Politics

''Political Reform Now!'' is the theme of a campaign to be launched next month by a group of civil society organisations in Argentina, fed up with a political system widely seen as riddled with corruption.

ARGENTINA: Third Justice on Corruption-Tainted Supreme Court Resigns

The political offensive in Argentina to restore the prestige of the Supreme Court led to the fall of yet another judge, who handed in his resignation Thursday to avoid an imminent impeachment trial for malfeasance.

PARAGUAY: Agrochemicals Go Up in Smoke in New Corruption Case

The investigation of what could have become an environmental tragedy of enormous dimensions in the Paraguayan capital will be referred to anti-corruption authorities.