Africa

How Formations House, working through a smooth-talking salesman, sold Gambia a fake bill of goods.

Formations House created and sold companies based in a Gambian offshore zone — that the government says never existed.

Formations House sold the government on a medical marijuana plantation, but much of the money never materialized.

Leaked emails show London agent helped a shady businessman gain a foothold in offshore banking — or so he thought.

South Sudan is spending well beyond its means, even as it says its efforts to move on from a devastating civil war are being...

Investors pulled billions of rand out of public companies under the guise of a government program meant to address the...

The controversial Gupta family is known for making millions from the South African government — including $41 million from...

Busisiwe Mkhwebane, who heads the country’s top anti-corruption body, was flagged by global banking giant HSBC as having...

A Dutch investment fund acquired a popular gambling brand despite its long-standing ties to Italy’s criminal underworld.

Mining magnate Frank Timis appears to have earned hundreds of millions of dollars by muscling into a deal for a West African...

An Israeli contractor paid to grow food for South Sudan has been sanctioned for selling arms to the government instead....

Around the world, journalists investigating the environmental and human impact of the mining industry are facing threats,...