Tens of thousands of Malaysians protested over the weekend in the capital Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere, calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down over a financial scandal. The protesters are angered by a $700m (£455m) payment made to his bank account from unnamed foreign donors.

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The Citizen Newspaper on 13th August 2015 reported that, a senior Security Manager at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) and two members of Tanzania Peoples Defence Force (TPDF) have been implicated in the $413,000 (over Tsh826 million) ivory haul seized in Switzerland last month. The value of 262 kg of ivory was intercepted at Zurich Airport after being smuggled out through from Dar es Salaam.

On the 29th of July 2015, the Prime Minister of Malaysia announced a new cabinet reshuffle. As expected, the Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyidin Yassin is nowhere to be seen in the new cabinet line up. For the past few months, the National Coalition government, specifically the Prime Minister, have been the target of much criticism in his handling of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) crisis. Najib established 1MDB…