(May 22, 2002) The Lesotho High Court yesterday found Masupha Sole guilty of bribery associated with a World Bank-financed project to supply South Africa with water.
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Deputy health minister raises spectre of epidemics
China’s vice-minister of health has reiterated the importance of thoroughly cleaning and decontaminating the bottom of the future Three Gorges reservoir to protect water quality and avert the spread of disease.
Report shows Executive Board approved project on basis of distorted economic analysis
(May 22, 2002) In early June, the World Bank is expected to vote on a political risk guarantee for the Bujagali dam in Uganda. … International Rivers calls on the Bank to reconsider the economics of the project, to allow the World Bank Inspection Panel to submit its near–complete report on Bujagali, and to assess Uganda’s promising geothermal potential before taking any further decision on the project.
Water project boss convicted of bribery
(May 21, 2002) Former chief executive of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority was convicted yesterday of accepting bribes from some of the world’s best-known contractors including Acres International. A case is currently proceeding against Acres.
UK firms named in Lesotho bribery verdict
(May 21, 2002) Dam project chief given millions to place contracts companies gave millions to dam project official.
Former CEO of US$8B African water project convicted
(May 21, 2002) Canadian company, Acres, denied links to bribery scandal.
Convicted Highlands Water Project chief hospitalized
(May 21, 2002) The former chief executive of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, Masupha Sole, convicted in the multi-million rand bribery trial linked to the massive Lesotho Highlands Water Project, has been remanded in custody at a Maseru Hospital.
Crown v. Masupha Ephraim Sole
(May 20, 2002) The full court judgment against Mr. Sole, head of Lesotho Highlands Water Project, convicted of accepting bribes from Acres and 11 other engineering companies and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Corporate bribery verdict in Lesotho
(May 20, 2002) A former senior official in Lesotho has been found guilty of taking bribes from a consortium of international firms in relation to a highly controversial water development project.
Bribe exposure
(May 20, 2002) A historic decision: a court in Lesotho has convicted an African official of taking bribes from international construction firms.
NGO letter to World Bank re: Bujagali dam
(May 20, 2002) Ugandan and international groups, including Probe International, urge World Bank Directors to make public details of Bujagali hydro deal.
Uganda dam decision delayed
(May 18, 2002) The fate of Africa’s biggest commercial investment hung in the balance yesterday after the World Bank postponed a decision on whether to fill a massive funding shortfall left by the withdrawal of skeptical financiers, reports the Independent (UK).
Flood season lengthening, says Red Cross
China has been experiencing increasingly long flood seasons over the past few years, according to a recent Operations Update by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Cayo death toll could be thousands
(May 17, 2002) The geological mapping done by AMEC and presented by BEL and Fortis for the Chalillo dam site is so faulty that the Geology and Petroleum Departments in Belmopan, Belize, have demanded that new mapping be done.
Protesters greet shareholders of company building Belize dam
(May 16, 2002) A small group of protesters stood in the rain outside a hotel in St. John’s Wednesday morning, speaking out against the Chalillo hydro dam project in Central America.
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