(March 9, 2005) The Africa Commission this week will finally acknowledge the West’s complicity in corruption.
Blair’s Commision For Africa Report Calls For West To Clean Up It’s Act
(March 7, 2005) The long awaited final report of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa calls on the developed world to help Africa curb corruption by cleaning up its own act, reports the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
Blair targets corruption in Africa plan
(March 5, 2005) Tony Blair will next week demand a radical shake-up of the west’s approach to the world’s poorest continent when his year-long Africa Commission calls for a doubling of aid, the dismantling of trade barriers, the writing off of debts and immediate action to stamp out
corruption.
Spotlight falls on corruption of Africa
(March 5, 2005) Rather than putting the blame solely on African governments, which has been the common tendency of some western governments, the Commission for Africa report makes a significant shift in the other direction.
Why Kenya deserves debt relief
(March 3, 2005) We spend millions – multiples of healthcare costs servicing debts while our sick languish at home with bare cupboards, dirty drinking water and no medicine. And yet, we are the norm.
Company faces bribery charges
(March 2, 2005) The Italian company Impregilo SpA will be tried in the Lesotho High Court in April on five charges of bribery relating to the giant Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
KAIROS analysis of debt recommendations in Commission for Africa Report
(April 1, 2005) Possible actions in the report’s Annex 9 are closer to the actual proposals being debated by G7 finance ministers: some additional debt service relief until 2015 and reinforcement of IMF and World Bank conditionality for African countries.
Our common interest
(March 1, 2005) British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa report.
Taming the monster called corruption
(February 27, 2005) Nigeria’s crusade against corruption got a rude shock when Transparency International accused the country of being on the lead of African nations allegedly slowing down the fight against corruption in the continent.
Kenya threatens to arrest British envoy for ‘theft and corruption’
(February 23, 2005) Relations between Britain and Kenya plunged to their lowest point in decades yesterday after a senior minister in President Mwai Kibaki’s government threatened to arrest the British high commissioner on charges of theft and corruption.
The world’s 10 worst dictators
(February 22, 2005) The annual top 10 “world’s worst dictators” list compiled by the U.S. weekly lifestyle magazine, Parade in consultation with human-rights organizations.
Will power
(February 18, 2005) Once again Canada has found cause to wag its diplomatic finger at Africa, this time shaking a despairing head over Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and his government’s failure to stamp out corruption.
Kenya’s president takes to bed with a book
(February 17, 2005) Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki is said to have taken to his bed in despair, finding solace, according to a cabinet colleague, "only in the works of P.G. Wodehouse."
Kenya: Cabinet shuffled amid calls for action on graft
(February 16, 2005) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki shuffled his cabinet on Monday, just days after western donors had urged his government to act on reports of corruption and bad governance.
Kenya responds to pressure on government graft
(February 16, 2005) Under heavy domestic and international pressure to prove its commitment to fighting government corruption, Kenya said Wednesday that six fired senior government officials would stand trial on graft charges.
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