(June 20, 2005) South Africa’s popular former Deputy President Jacob Zuma will be charged with corruption in a case which has already seen his aide sentenced to 15 years in prison, the prosecution authority announced.
Translation by Three Gorges Probe The people of Wangusi village on the Xiangxi River, a major Yangtze tributary 45 kilometres up
(June 19, 2005) Eight years ago, Lu She Zhong and the other residents of Guan Yang, a hamlet in central Henan Province, were forced to move to this resettlement village about 40 miles away.
West should act against bribery in Africa-Wolfowitz
(June 19, 2005) World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said developed countries have an obligation to prevent bribery in Africa by Western firms.
Uprooted by Xiaolangdi dam, Chinese villagers fight back
(June 19, 2005) Eight years ago, Lu She Zhong and the other residents of Guan Yang, a hamlet in central Henan Province, were forced to move to this resettlement village about 40 miles away.
Conference to review debt management by developing countries, debate issues of debt, development
(June 18, 2005) Two weeks before the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Scotland this July, a conference focusing on the management of debt burdens, the long-term sustainability of external debt and the extent to which debt relief does or does not address development prospects in African countries will be held in Geneva from June 20 to June 24.
Shirking responsibility
(June 17, 2005) "If a despotic power incurs a debt not for the needs or in the interest of the State, but to strengthen its despotic regime, to repress the population that fights against it, etc., this debt is odious for the population of all the State." –Alexander Sack, 1927
Erasing the scar or the evidence?
(June 17, 2005) Hailed as the biggest debt settlement the world has ever seen, the recent agreement by the Group of Eight (G-8) rich nations to write off the debts of 18 of the world’s poorest countries has not managed to quell calls for debt repudiation in Africa.
Democracy not basis for World Bank funds
(June 16, 2005) Foreign financial assistance is not based on sound economic policies or genuine democratisation principles and inevitably contradicts sound nationalistic economic policies, claims an editorial by New Vision,Uganda’s largest daily.
It just won’t work
(June 12, 2005) Tony Blair’s desire to save Africa is admirable; his ideas are not.
PRESS RELEASE Export Development Canada keeps taxpayers in the dark, says Rosen and Associates Limited
(June 14, 2005) A report by one of Canada’s leading forensic accounting firms, Toronto-based Rosen and Associates, criticizes the 2003 annual report of Export Development Canada for not differentiating between commercial and politically-mandated activities. EDC is a crown corporation that in 2003 backstopped $51.9 billion in exports and international investments by Canadian enterprises. The Rosen and Associates study focused on the financial reporting relating to EDC’s loan portfolio.
Repudiate foreign debt, CSOs urge AU
(June 14, 2005) African civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on the African Union to be prepared to repudiate Africa’s multilateral debts, should the G8 summit scheduled for July fail to
agree on a 100 per cent debt cancellation for the continent without conditions.
SAfrica’s Mbeki fires deputy Zuma over graft case
(June 14, 2005) South African President Thabo Mbeki sacked his graft-tainted deputy and presumed successor, Jacob Zuma, after he was implicated in a high-profile corruption trial.
A truckload of nonsense
(June 14, 2005) The G8 plan to save Africa comes with conditions that make it little more than an extortion racket.
Wolfowitz supports Nigeria’s debt relief quest
(June 13, 2005) New World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz told Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo he hoped Africa’s biggest debtor would see progress in its quest for debt relief at a meeting of the Paris Club on Monday.
Shock as Kenya denied debt relief
(June 13, 2005) Kenyan MP Paul Muite called on Kenyan leaders to stop whining about the debt waiver initiated by Britain and suspend payment of Kenya’s debt for five years instead and redeploy the money to needy sectors such as education, health and infrastructure.
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