Graft in Mali New government fails to reverse entrenched corruption in the public and private spheres Blue-clad traffic police officers have their hands full dealing with offending cars and motorbikes on the choked streets of Bamako, Mali’s capital. Their back pockets are full too, because they use the highway code as a price list for bribes: 500 CFA francs ($1) for a broken indicator light, 3,000 CFA francs ($6) for a fake or missing driving licence. Moneyed officialdom is elsewhere, too: during the November 2013 parliamentary elections, party agents openly distributed 5,000 CFA franc ($10) notes to voters at polling…
