(November 24, 2005) A Nigerian court has sentenced the country’s former police chief in a $140m money laundering case but anti-corruption campaigners have said his six-month jail sentence undermines the war on corruption.
Japan forgives $6 billion in Iraq debt
(November 24, 2005) The government of Japan has released Iraq from $6.1 billion of the $7.6 billion owed to it.
Dai Qing: ‘I have been trying to make a public speech for the past 16 years’
(November 23, 2005) Dai Qing talks to Hong Kong news magazine Asia Weekly about her first public appearance in China since 1989.
Dam that claims lives is illegal, says new report
(November 22, 2005) Villagers appeal to the Cambodian government as Mekong Agreement fails to protect them.
WeBAD says Chalillo concerns still linger
(November 22, 2005) Last week, the Belize Electric Company Limited (BECOL) commissioned the US$34 million, 7-megawatt Chalillo dam and announced that the new hydro-facility had become fully perational.
World Bank anti-corruption: discourse versus practice
(November 21, 2005) Despite improved efforts by the World Bank on corruption ahead of other regional development banks, there is still a striking inconsistency between the Bank’s discourse and practice.
Parliamentary initiatives around the IFIs gather steam
(November 21, 2005) "It should beggar belief for the IMF to throw MPs out of a poor country ministers’ meeting to stop them presenting a petition calling for democratic accountability of the IMF itself."
‘Senseless coups’
(November 21, 2005) The Executive Secretary of the National Africa Peer Review Mechanism Governing Council, Dr. Francis Appiah, has said that despite Africa’s endowment with natural resources, internal factors such as "senseless coups, wars and conflicts," have made the continent poor. Speaking at an African Peer Review Mechanism and National Development Planning Commission workshop, Dr. Appiah said that Africa would have been better-off today if it had not passed through the hands of dictators who muzzled the press and ensured a "culture of silence"
Malawi loses K5 billion in corruption
(November 21, 2005) The Malawi government has lost close to a whopping K5 billion in the last five years due to high-level corrupt practices that involved top government and party officials, The Chronicle has learnt.
Poll win solidifies Zanu’s stranglehold
(November 29, 2005) President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party has cemented its grip on power.
World Bank reform signed into law
(November 18, 2005) U.S. President George Bush has signed into law legislation urging greater transparency and accountability at the five international multilateral development banks MDBs).
The Middle East’s real bane: corruption
(November 18, 2005) Beirut: President George W. Bush has made democratization a pillar of his administration’s strategy. “It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny,” he declared in his January 20, 2005, inaugural address.
Anti-corruption declaration adopted
(November 18, 2005) Business leaders of 21 economies in the Asia- Pacific region Friday adopted an anti-corruption declaration, urging their heads of state to make greater efforts to eliminate corruption and enhance transparency.
Wanted: Honest men and women for Liberian govt
(November 18, 2005) Presumptive president-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is looking for a few honest men, and women, to form a government able to tackle the challenge of rebuilding war-torn Liberia, writes Lauren Gelfand for the Mail & Guardian Online.
Issuing contracts, ex-convict took bribes in Iraq, U.S. says
(November 18, 2005) A North Carolina man who was charged with accepting kickbacks and bribes as a comptroller and financial officer for the American occupation authority in Iraq was hired despite having served prison time for felony fraud in the 1990’s.
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