Watch Africa
iWatch Africa reports on Organised crime in Africa/ Trans-national Crime (Drug Trafficking, Illegal Mining, Illegal logging, Human Trafficking, Organ Trafficking, Illicit Financial Flows etc.)
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FactCheck: Is California’s GDP larger than that of Africa’s combined?
iWatch Africa assessment of recently published data by the African Development Bank can confirm that the US state of California…
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How cybercrime and digital technologies are fueling illicit financial flows in Ghana
ACCRA – The issue of illicit financial flows is not new; however, the increasing complexity of the digital economy and…
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Government fails to investigate missing $7 billion gold proceeds
iWatch Africa can confirm that the government of Ghana as at September 2018 had failed to investigate how a whopping…
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Chinese & Indian firms dumping counterfeit anti-malarials in West Africa causing over 100,000 deaths a year
iWatch Africa assessment of the 2017 Enact Continental Report has revealed that Chinese and Indian firms are the largest producers…
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Small-scale gold production dropped by only 6% in 2017 despite ban
iWatch Africa assessment of the total gold output from the small-scale miners can confirm that the government ban on the…
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Developing countries lost over $ 1 trillion to Illicit Financial Flows from 2005-2014
iWatch Africa assessment of a 2017 report by the Global Financial Integrity has revealed that illicit financial flows (IFFs) from…
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Close to 20,000 migrant deaths recorded in the Mediterranean since 2014 [infographic]
iWatch Africa assessment of data provided by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) can confirm that an estimated 17,000 migrants…
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Transnational Organized Crime: Eight arrested by FBI, including 3 Ghanaians for Cyber crime schemes amounting to $15 million
Eight individuals, including three Ghanaians have been arrested by the FBI for their roles in Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes…
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Missing Gold: How Ghana lost over $6 billion in gold export revenue to major trading partners
Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone. In a bleak partnership, privation and natural resources like gold or oil go together in…
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World Press Freedom Day: Journalists demand end to attacks on media
Journalists from all over the world have called for an end to attacks on them in their line of work…
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