Khadija Sharife is an investigative writer and researcher based in South Africa.

Kadija Sharife is the Africa Coordinator of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

Her focus in financial and mineral opacity. She is the editor of the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR).

She is a fellow to the World Policy Institute and contributor to the Tax Justice Network (Africa). She has published in a number of academic and mainstream media including Africa Confidential and the World Policy Journal.

Basic information

Name
Khadija Sharife
Expertise
financial and mineral opacity
Country
South Africa
City
Johannesburg
Website

Supported projects

Mafia in Africa 2

  • Industry
  • Organised crime

Mafia in Africa 2 exposes the fraudulent business empire of Italian criminal Curio Pintus, who was sentenced to three years in jail in 2001 for laundering drug money for the 'ndrangheta, but remains active as CEO of US “merchant bank”, the Pintus Group.

Our Game

  • Corruption
  • Politics

The internal financial structures of several African countries' dominant political parties that are performing as corporatised multinationals in monopolised state power structures: Angola’s MPLA, Zimbabwe's ZANU, and Namibia’s SWAPO.

Mafia in Africa

  • Industry
  • Organised crime

The Italian mafia has established a hidden but lethal presence in Africa. Its members own diamond mines, nightclubs and land, all with the complicity of corrupt regimes.