Covid Graft Plague Spurs Political Shake-Up Across Africa
- Procurement scandals rock Kenya, South Africa, Botswana
- World Health Organization chief says profiteers are murderers
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African countries have generally handled their coronavirus response better than many experts feared, except for one detail: managing corruption.
Kenya is the latest African nation to have its politics shaken by allegations of graft in handing out pandemic-response contracts. It follows South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Uganda, which have all been rocked by scandals of their own.