This archive report was first published on 22 July 2019.
Published on July 22, 2019, Kenya's Finance Minister Henry Rotich was arrested over corruption involving the proposed $630 million construction of two dams.
Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji said Mr Rotich, Treasury Permanent Secretary Kamau Thugge and officials of the Kerio Valley Development Authority, the implementing agency, would be charged with fraud.
It is alleged that broke Italian firm CMC di Ravenna was paid more than $210 million for the construction of the 'ghost' Kimwarer and Aror dams in the Rift Valley even before a feasibility study was done.
Meanwhile, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities have banned political rallies this week in the capital Kinshasa due to tensions between supporters of President Felix Tshisekedi and those of former leader Joseph Kabila.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has come out fighting against a public prosecutor's finding that he misled Parliament over a $36,000 donation to his campaign in 2017.
President Ramaphosa initially said the money was a consultancy fee payment to his son before admitting it was a political donation. He now says he will go to court.
British Airways has been accused by Egypt of suspending flights to the country on Saturday over insecurity without consulting the authorities.
Libya's National Oil Company has stopped loading crude at a key terminal due to circumstances beyond its control following a pipeline closure on Friday.
A member of Nigeria's air force has returned a parcel to its owner that contained $41,000 in cash, earning praise from the authorities struggling to clean the image of the country's transit ports.
