The Drug Enforcement Agency or DEA says it needs US$6 million to fight drug traffickers and users. The agency has warned that Liberia could be like Guinea Bassau if the authorities do not take an aggressive approach in fighting the dangerous trade the region.

Africa’s Western black rhino has officially been declared extinct and other subspecies of rhinoceros could follow, according to the latest review by a leading conservation organization.

A key ally of the African National Congress said Tuesday that the South African ruling party is plagued by perpetual leadership battles funded by dirty money.

Oil company rejects watchdog's claims that its local contracts made it complicit in the killing of civilians

Top West African officials are calling for greater United Nations and international support to prevent the region’s coasts from becoming a haven for pirates and to fight growing drug and arms trafficking

South Africa's government has announced it is reopening an inquiry into a 1999 arms deal that has been surrounded with corruption allegations

Anti-narcotic police in Tanzania Wednesday arrested five suspected drug dealers with 97kg of heroin worth $2.6 million

Lieutenant Colonel Larry Gbevlo-Lartey, National Security Coordinator, on Monday called for specific laws on seizure and confiscation of assets to make criminal acts unprofitable

A public policy think tank, the Danquah Institute has alleged that a lot of shops in Ghana are mere fronts for money laundering and illegal money transfers between Ghana and countries such as the UK, Germany and the Netherlands which are the three main channels of remittances into Ghana

Head of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has revealed that there was a high rate of illegal transfer of money within and out of Sierra Leone, a development he referred to as unfortunate in the fight against crime and other corruption related offences