(November 26, 2005) Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet cancelled his 90th birthday celebrations yesterday, citing health concerns after he was charged and arrested for crimes ranging from human rights violations to multimillion-dollar tax fraud.
Quake hits central China, 600 km downstream of Three Gorges
(November 26, 2005) The 5.7-magnitude earthquake, the biggest in the region in half a century, does not appear to have affected the Three Gorges project. It does, however, highlight experts’ concerns about building the world’s biggest dam in a geologically fragile area.
U.S. Congress demands greater transparency from multilateral development banks
(November 25, 2005) Reforms signed into law by Bush.
Indian parliament erupts in chaos over Iraq oil-for-food scandal
(November 25, 2005) BJP wants Sonia and Natwar Singh to resign.
Despotism hinders Africa’s development
(November 25, 2005) Despotism hinders Africa’s development – PAP Corruption and despotism were highlighted during an introspective session of the Pan African Parliament on Friday as key stumbling blocks to the continent’s development. Along with ignorance, these had replaced the evils imposed
on Africa by colonialism and imperialism, United Kingdom High Commissioner to South Africa Paul Boateng told a parliamentary sitting in Midrand.
Judgment of Paris
(November 25, 2005) What’s good for Iraq must surely be good for Nigeria too.
Pinochet faces charges for passport, tax fraud
(November 24, 2005) Arrest seen as victory for regime’s victims.
Nigeria jails former police chief in graft crackdown
(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"
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