(February 7, 2005) Patricia Adams, Executive Director of Probe International, addressed a Congressional-Executive Commission on China roundtable in Washington on Feb. 7: ‘We believe projects like Three Gorges can be built only in the absence of good information about their real costs and benefits, and in the absence of an informed public debate.’ See her statement.
All talk and no action: the G7 has no intention of cancelling the debt
(February 7, 2005) The failure that has marked the end of the summit of G7 finance ministers on February 4 and 5 had to be covered up with empty declarations.
US and Iraq: Who owes whom?
(February 7, 2005) It is intriguing that nobody seems to have worked out how much the US and its allies owe the people of Iraq.
G-7 countries willing to offer debt relief
(February 5, 2005) The world’s seven wealthiest nations said Saturday they were willing to take on up to 100 percent of the debt owed by some of the poorest countries. But they failed to agree on a British plan to boost international aid by $50 billion a year.
State has grounds to seek more compensation
(February 5, 2005) The consultant firms hired to assess the controversial Klong Dan wastewater treatment facility have found serious structural damage that could lead to a compensation claim by the state against the contractor of some 4,000 million baht.
UK envoy tells of massive rot in Kibaki government
(February 4, 2005) Fresh claims by the British High Commissioner to Kenya, Sir Edward Clay, that the government abets corruption within its ranks have elicited angry reaction in Nairobi.
Iraq demands justice in wake of oil-for-food report
(February 4, 2005) Anyone who stole from the UN’s oil-for-food program for Iraq must stand trial and the money be repaid to the Iraqi people, Iraq’s Human Rights Minister said.
‘N315bn looted funds in British banks’
(February 3, 2005) Britain said yesterday that over £1.5 billion (about N315.53 billion) of Nigeria’s looted funds are frozen in various British banks.
The Story of the Dahe Dam
Another feisty character who will play a lead role in the Dahe drama enters the fray, and senses danger in villagers’ plans to cause trouble at the hydropower station.
UN programme chief ‘solicited oil from Baghdad’
(February 3, 2005) Benon Sevan, head of the United Nations office that administered Iraq’s multi-billion dollar oil-for-food programme, "repeatedly solicited" oil allocations from Baghdad, a UN-appointed inquiry said yesterday.
UK Christians call for G7 debt cancellation deal
(February 2, 2005) “If finance ministers agree a deal on debt cancellation, this G7 meeting would be the first milestone on the road towards ending the obscene poverty.”
Environmentalists challenge UEGCL
(February 2, 2005) Critics say Uganda’s Owen Falls Extension is a catastrophe and blame it on the government, Acres International, the project consultants, and the World Bank.
Pressure mounts on G-7 to cancel ‘odious’ debts
(February 2, 2005) Development groups are calling on the Bush administration to support full, unconditional, and immediate debt relief for more than three dozen of the world’s poorest nations.
Blair and Brown cannot afford to fail
(February 2, 2005) Both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have taken a big political risk in setting an ambitious programme on Africa – and will certainly struggle to disguise any failure to make progress in 2005.
Activists urge G7 to cancel debts
(February 2, 2005) Petitions delivered to the US Treasury Department Tuesday called on Group of Seven nations to take action this weekend to cancel debts of the poorest countries.
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