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1 month ago | 
icij.org | Micah Reddy
Leaked documents reveal the government awarded a Portuguese construction giant with ties to the vice president $1 billion in contracts as it splurged on a Paris-inspired capital, an empty airport and other long-forgotten infrastructure projects.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Micah Reddy
Leaked files obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists show how a Dubai-based gold trader cosied up to the Swazi king's son-in-law to allegedly launder money from South Africa to Dubai through the tiny African kingdom.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Micah Reddy
FINANCE UNCOVERED & AMABHUNGANE Leaked files obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists show how a Dubai-based gold trader cosied up to the Swazi king’s son-in-law to allegedly launder money from South Africa to Dubai through the tiny African kingdom.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
icij.org | Micah Reddy
After sweet-talking our way past a friendly security guard with a large rifle — “This is nothing; you should see the guns they have inside,” he said — my two colleagues and I were in the courtyard of the Usuthu country club, chatting with the head of a private security firm. The club, in the serene village of Mhlambanyatsi, surrounded by hills of timber forests, is about a 30-minute drive south of Mbabane, the capital of Eswatini.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
icij.org | Micah Reddy
Four Angolan advocacy groups have called on Portuguese and Angolan judicial authorities to explain why assets seized in Portugal from Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s former president and the subject of ICIJ’s 2020 Luanda Leaks investigation, have not yet been returned to Angola. In an Aug.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
icij.org | Micah Reddy
Lawmakers in the Kingdom of Eswatini are demanding that the country’s finance minister, Neal Rijkenberg, answer questions about a leak of confidential documents that formed the basis of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ recent Swazi Secrets investigation, which revealed Eswatini’s little-known role as a possible pipeline in southern Africa’s illicit gold economy.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
icij.org | Micah Reddy
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema fired the board of the country’s anti-graft body last week. The surprise decision followed allegations by one of its own members that the entity’s management was itself corrupt.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
icij.org | Micah Reddy
On Dec. 6, 2021, Zambian financial crime investigators sent a confidential memo to their counterparts in Eswatini, the country formerly known as Swaziland.
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May 26, 2024 | 
icij.org | Micah Reddy |Tebogo Tshwane
On a cloudy Sunday morning in March 2024, congregants poured into the main branch of All Nations Christian Church in Zion, in a field just off the highway between Mbabane and Manzini, the kingdom of Eswatini’s two largest cities. There are several branches of the church across South Africa and Eswatini — which until 2018 was known as Swaziland — and this building, whose construction began in 2017, is pure utilitarianism.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
africafocus.substack.com | Micah Reddy |Warren Thompson |Nicole Sadek |Spencer Woodman
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