(March 17, 2004) This week has seen the opening of a £5 billion multinational dam project in tiny Lesotho, in southern Africa, that has already become more famous for exposing bribery than delivering water.

(August 27, 2003) "Once the international companies and the international community as a whole realize that there’s zero tolerance on corruption, then it clearly means that there’d be more investors coming to Lesotho." – Fine Maema, Lesotho’s Attorney General.

(August 6, 2003) The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority should pay interest on delayed compensation for communities affected by the giant Lesotho Highlands Water Project’s Phase 1B, Ombudsman says.

(July 2, 2003) German consultancy firm Lahmeyer International found guilty of bribery in Lesotho Highland Water Project.

(June 18, 2003) "Like the Acres’ verdict before it, the judgment against Lahmeyer throws into doubt the legitimacy of these companies’ involvement in other large dam projects throughout the world," says Ryan Hoover of International Rivers Network.

(June 17, 2003) Lesotho High Court Judge Gabriel Mofolo found Lahmeyer, a German engineering company, guilty on seven counts for paying R5.9m in bribes to Lesotho Highlands Development Authority former chief executive Masupha Sole over a six year period.

(June 3, 2003) Jacobus Michiel du Plooy, a South African citizen of Ficksburg in the Free State, pleaded guilty in the Lesotho High Court today to bribery totalling more than $ 1 million related to the Lesotho highlands water project.

(May 19, 2003) A National Public Radio report on the historic foreign aid-related corruption court case unfolding in the remote South African kingdom of Lesotho.

(April 15, 2003) The Lesotho Court of Appeal on Monday confirmed the conviction of the former head of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority on 13 counts of receiving bribe money from international contractors and consultants.

(February 10, 2003) Amec’s promise that its acquisition of Spie will not draw it into a bribery trial in southern Africa has been challenged by the French engineering company’s former owner.

(February 6, 2003) A row over bribery allegations yesterday took the shine off shareholder approval for the Amec board to proceed with its full takeover of French construction company SPIE.

(December 19, 2002) The Lesotho government has set-up an anti-corruption department to root-out corruption in that country.