(February 9, 2007) Quite often when you read newspapers, listen to radio and watch television in the West you learn how poor Africans are and how corrupt African leaders are. But you will never watch, read or hear anything in these media outlets about the role being played by Western banking institutions; property development and estate companies; the big corporations; and the western political and business elite in promoting corruption in Africa.

(December 12, 2006) Deprived of the funds needed to develop their economies by the corruption-obsessed West, African countries are turning to China.

(November 23, 2006) China lending to Sub-Saharan African countries and debt campaigners’ increased emphasis on creditor responsibility poses new challenges for World Bank.

(November 14, 2006) Campaigner against corruption in the Republic of the Congo is arrested for defaming president: latest move in a campaign of judicial harassment against activists denouncing the looting of Congolese public funds, says international NGO.

(November 8, 2006) By paying bribes to the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority’s chief executive, the engineering company Lahmeyer International engaged in punishable activities, the World Bank’s Sanctions Committee found.

(November 6, 2006) The World Bank has declared Lahmeyer International GmbH (Lahmeyer), a German company, ineligible to be awarded Bank-financed contracts for a period of seven years, because of corrupt activities in connection with the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). The period of ineligibility may be reduced by four years if the Bank determines that Lahmeyer has met specific compliance conditions and fully cooperated with the Bank in disclosing past sanctionable misconduct.

(October 20, 2006) “Basically, this money has gone to waste." More than $380 billion has either been stolen or wasted by Nigerian governments since independence in 1960, Nigeria’s chief corruption fighter has said.