(August 8, 2002) Abia state governor has urged the federal government to reschedule the payment of all the loans owed by state governments in the country in order to reduce the sufferings of the masses.
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Apartheid victims seek billions
(August 8, 2002) Lawyers representing South African apartheid victims seeking billions of dollars for “blood and misery” from German, Swiss and US firms will present their claims in New York on Friday.
PRESS RELEASE: Belize government disavows Canadian-backed rainforest dam
(August 8, 2002) In a dramatic turnaround, the Belize government has denied ever giving Canadian power company Fortis Inc. permission to build a controversial hydro dam in one of Central America’s last undisturbed rainforests.
African governments urged to stop corruption
(August 7, 2002) The Nigerian deputy senate president, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, has decried corruption amongst government officials in Africa.
I will probe frivolous debts – presidential aspirant
(August 7, 2002) What I am saying is that we will look into that case and all other cases which has to do with government officials borrowing monies and making the poor taxpayers of Nigeria responsible for their personal borrowings.
US holocaust lawyer to aid apartheid reparation
(August 7, 2002) Jubilee South Africa was still in the process of defining the parameters of its international legal action on apartheid reparations, leading holocaust lawyer Michael Hausfelt, said in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Three Gorges shiplift lags behind schedule
(August 6, 2002) Two shiplifts being built on a Yangtze River tributary are being seen as pilot projects for a similar structure planned for the Three Gorges dam, an official publication reports. The recent story in the Three Gorges Project Daily (Sanxia gongcheng bao) indicates that despite serious design-stage setbacks with the Three Gorges shiplift, planners still intend to go ahead with construction of the giant hoist that would ease vessels’ passage through the world’s biggest dam.
US warning on corruption
(August 6, 2002) Mozambique should step up the reform of the public sector, and improve the management of foreign aid, in order gradually to reduce the level of corruption, advised Juan Marcelino.
Former justice pleads guilty to bribe charge
(August 6, 2002) Victor I. Barron, a former State Supreme Court justice in Brooklyn charged with receiving a bribe, pleaded guilty yesterday under an agreement that will send him to prison for at least three years.
Enron criminal probe focuses on alleged corruption abroad
(August 5, 2002) Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Enron Corp. for years bribed foreign government officials to win contracts for its far-flung operations abroad.
Spotlight to fall on Crown corporations
(August 5, 2002) Extending the Access to Information Act to Crown corporations and other institutions not currently covered by the law will be among the major changes introduced this fall by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, sources have told The Canadian Press.
Why foreign investment eludes Nigeria – Jeter
(August 2, 2002) Efforts of Nigerian Government to attract foreign investment into the country would come to naught unless urgent steps are taken to tackle corruption, United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Howard Jeter has said.
Missing voices on the Nu River dam project
In all of the debate so far over the proposed dams, ‘there is one group of stakeholders whose voice is largely unheard: the mostly poor local residents.’
Source of potential conflict
(August 2, 2002) ‘China’s growth-driven pollution of the environment, and its enormous demand for natural resources and energy, are also injecting a new and potentially disruptive element into Beijing’s relations with neighbouring states – water politics.’
Profiting from apartheid
(August 2, 2002) A week from today, in the U.S. District Court here, a class-action trial begins against companies that did business in South Africa during the apartheid years.
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