Article: Britain's tarnished reputation can be salvaged at last

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The cardinal could stand it no longer. Conducting the funeral service for a prominent bishop in front of pews packed with his nation's top politicians and business leaders, Polycarp Pengo, the head of the Catholic Church in Tanzania, raged against the cancer of corruption eating away at his country. He urged all decent people to join a crusade against the 'vices' of bribery and embezzlement.

He was right to be annoyed. A series of scandals have highlighted the growth of graft in Tanzania. There have been calls for Benjamin Mkapa, the globally-respected former president who was among those mourners a month ago, to be prosecuted. And in a land where more than a third of people live on ...

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