(August 11, 2004) He Kechang, jailed for three years for appealing to top Chinese leaders about corruption in the Three Gorges resettlement operation, has been released and is still struggling on behalf of people uprooted by the dam.
(August 10, 2004) The head of an independent panel investigating corruption in the United Nations’ "oil-for-food" program for Iraq says it may take another year to produce its main findings.
(August 8, 2004) Many of the legal aspects of corruption have now been thoroughly and recently tested in the Lesotho courts, challenging the ways in which corruption is detected and punished in different parts of the world.
(August 5, 2004) The new wealth from oil development in sub-Saharan Africa has been used almost exclusively for the enrichment of political leaders, and as a consequence most of the population remains poor and unprotected.
(August 4, 2004) The fight against corruption is a thankless battle, observed Southern Africa Forum Against Corruption (SAFAC) out-going chairman Major General Anatory Kamazima yesterday.
(August 4, 2004) The fight against corruption is a thankless job, said Major General Anatory Kamazima, the outgoing chairman of the Southern Africa Forum Against Corruption (SAFAC). Major General Kamazima said the irony of fighting corruption was that very few in the upper echelon of society supported the battle. Without strong political will, he said, anti-corruption agencies would not succeed alone.
(August 2, 2004) Some send emissaries in secret, some host seminars, all seek a relationship.
(August 2, 2004) Various promises of assistance made but little follow-through, especially from countries whose companies were involved in the criminal proceedings.
(August 2, 2004) Sub-Saharan Africa now owes $201 billion in international debts. Africa will not develop with these unending obstacles and more aid, and therefore debt and interest obligations, are exacerbating the problem.
(August 1, 2002) There are three outstanding conditions set by the Bretton Woods institutions which the Government is yet to fulfil for the resumption of aid , Finance Assistant Minister David Kirui said.
(July 30, 2004) It is business as usual between Canadian government agencies and a local company barred from World Bank contracts after being convicted of bribery in Africa.
(July 29, 2004) Kenya had asked six countries to help find evidence abroad for its probe into alleged government corruption, the country’s top anti-graft official, permanent secretary for governance and ethics John Githongo, told the Daily Nation yesterday.
(July 28, 2004) Congressional committees investigating allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq are at odds with the organization’s own inquiry over access to records and personnel.
(July 26, 2004) Ontario-based Acres International is still feeling the repercussions of a scandal-ridden African water project.
(July 26, 2004) The World Bank had blacklisted Canadian engineering firm Acres International for three years for "corrupt activities" related to the bank-sponsored Lesotho Highlands Water Project, it said at the weekend.
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