(March 22, 2007) The annual global graft ranking by Transparency International has come under fire for not including tax havens in its survey. The Norwegian aid journal, Development Today, reports that the international NGO Tax Justice Network (TJN) has called on Transparency International to rate tax havens as highly, if not higher, than bribery in terms of impact because developing countries lose more in revenue this way than from bribery.

(March 26, 2007) British businesses caught by the current round of anti-corruption investigations in the U.K. are in need of an amnesty arrangement, says global construction trade magazine, International Construction Review.

(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.