(August 20, 1999) ‘Corruption has to be tackled head on,’ declared Diane Marleau, Canada’s minister for foreign aid this spring, two months after Canada adopted the OECD’s anti-corruption convention by making bribery of foreign public officials a criminal offence. But on the eve of the world’s first foreign aid-related corruption court case — one involving Canadian engineering giant Acres International — the government agencies concerned mostly appear to be abdicating responsibility.
International firms in SA bribery scandal
(August 17, 1999) Several international construction companies that have handled major contracts in Uganda and Kenya have been named in a 12 million rand ($2.5 million) corruption scandal in South Africa and Lesotho
Corruption must be fought in north and south
(August 17, 1999) Business Day’s exposure of bribery on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project is a pointer to the degree to which the practice of corruption is increasingly becoming the norm in substantial sectors of big business.
M12 million bribery scam on Sole
(August 9, 1999) Masupha Sole is facing charges of bribery amounting to a stunning M12 million received from some international companies which were involved in the construction of the M10 billion Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
International construction companies bribe top official
(August 9, 1999) International construction companies bribe top official in large dam project for South Africa. Scandal highlights urgency of implementing OECD Convention against international corruption.
Lesotho project firms ‘linked to scandals’
(August 5, 1999) Six of the dozen international companies implicated in the multimillion-rand Lesotho Highlands Water Project bribery case have been linked to other dam-building scandals.
Bribes by major international dam-building companies taint World Bank-funded Lesotho water project
(August 2, 1999) A dozen major international dam-building companies involved in the World Bank-funded Lesotho Highlands Water Project(LHWP) have lavishly bribed at least one top official on the project.
Bribery case highlights failings
(August 2, 1999) The multimillion-rand bribery and corruption case involving a former boss of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project could test the industrialized world’s resolve to curb the offering of bribes by international business.
Official faces charges over R12m bribes
(July 29, 1999) The Lesotho government yesterday charged its former top official at the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, Masupha Sole, with taking R12m in bribes from a dozen international companies over 10 years.
Lesotho dam’s sea of debt could drown water conservation efforts
(July 15, 1999) On June 4 the World Bank approved a loan for Mohale Dam, the second of five large dams in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP).
UK banks pressured to return estimated 55 BLN USD looted by Nigerians
(July 1, 1999) British Jubilee 2000 is pressuring banks in the UK to freeze and help return an estimated 55 bln USD in ill-gotten gains placed abroad by Nigerians.
Probe International’s letter to Canadian World Bank executive director
(June 23, 1999) Please find attached a copy of a May 26th letter from the Canada Tibet Committee and endorsed by Probe International, urging Canada’s Minister of Finance, Paul Martin, to withhold support for the World Bank’s proposed “China Western Poverty Reduction Project.”
Patricia Adams: Speech at G-7 Summit – Public Forum on Odious Debts
(June 18, 1999) It is my very great pleasure to be here with debt campaigners from around the world who want to breathe life into this legal principle known as the doctrine of odious debts. As you know, from the introduction, I discovered the doctrine of odious debts years ago when I was writing my book about the Third World’s debt crisis. I was thrilled. Here was a principle, published in 1927 by Alexander Sack, then and still the world’s preeminent legal scholar on the treatment of public debts when governments and territories transform.
With sackings and probes, Obasanjo shakes up Nigeria
(June 16, 1999) Nigeria’s new president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has announced a series of steps to shake up the country since coming to power three weeks ago, ending more than 15 years of military rule.
A new deal for Africa: Rooting out looters: Nigeria new president aims for debt relief
(June 15, 1999) Muriel Olaiya lives more comfortably than most Nigerians. For a start, her husband has a job. It pays for the extras that make the difference between living and simply surviving in Lagos.
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