Search Results for: Congo
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INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ETHIOPIA COMMODITY EXCHANGE OPENS
ETHIOPIA has opened a commodity exchange, designed to bring order to the country’s often chaotic food markets. Their informality effectively forces farmers to sell locally to traders they know and trust. This prevents commodities moving from regions where there is abundance to those where there are shortages, intensifying the risk of famine and for prices to plummet in districts with a production glut.…
INTERNATIONAL GROUP SEEKS TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS ON SMALL MINES WORLDWIDE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LARGE mining companies take the environment seriously today, maybe rather more than in times past. They are devoting significant resources to reducing or mitigating the environmental problems caused by mining. But what about the small and artisanal mines that pepper much of the developing world?…
REGIONAL TRADE DEALS PROMOTE GLOBAL TRADE IN CLOTHING AND TEXTILE SECTOR
BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas; ALAN OSBORN, in London; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut; RACHEL JONES, in Caracas; MARK ROWE; and KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round being slow to proceed since its 2001 launch – and only this year approaching something resembling and end game – free traders wanting to encourage global commerce have looked to bilateral and regional trade deals.…
SOUTH AFRICA STRUGGLES TO ENSURE SECURITY OF OIL AND GAS SUPPLIES
BY BILL CORCORAN, in South Africa
SOUTH Africa is in a race against time to ensure the country’s
burgeoning economy is not crippled by fuel shortages, forcing its oil and gas companies to innovate to ensure security of supply, notably from neighbouring countries.…
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN ZIMBABWE FUELS PUBIC SECTOR CORRUPTION
BY BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg
AS Zimbabwe descends further into economic and political meltdown the country’s ruling elite are continuing to enrich themselves through fraud, theft and bribery. Bill Corcoran reports from Johannesburg.
UNLIKE politically stable countries where large scale commercial crime is just as likely to occur in the private sector as it is in the public, troubled Zimbabwe’s major fraudsters and thieves are today predominantly found in state run companies or government departments.…
GUINEA TYCOON IN ICJ CLAIM AGAINST CONGO GOVERNMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice hearings will begin this November hearing claims from the Guinea government against the Democratic Government of the Congo (DRC) over the imprisonment, loss of property and expulsion of a Guinean copper ore transport magnate.…
GUINEA TYCOON IN ICJ CLAIM AGAINST CONGO GOVERNMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice is to this November hear the Guinea government effectively sue the Democratic Government of the Congo (DRC) over the imprisonment, loss of property and expulsion of a Guinean magnate with extensive mining industry interests.…
WORLD BANK ANTI-CORRUPTION INITIATIVE - TRANSPARENCY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMER Pentagon deputy Paul Wolfowitz has brought the zeal and energy he applied to invading Iraq to his new job as president of the World Bank. Only this time his target is corruption everywhere, rather than despotism in Iraq, and his weapons are legal and political, not bombs and missiles.…
ICC EU COOPERATION AGREEMENT - AU ICC COOPERATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has promised that its institutions will cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC), even exchanging information with its investigators. The cooperation agreement that will come into force on May 1 involves creating a central EU contact point for the ICC.…
AFRICA MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE LOOSE LEGAL CONTROLS CORRUPTION
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
CENTRAL bankers, drug barons, warlords, corporate bosses and small town crooks in Africa are all washing their money despite attempts by governments and international law enforcement agencies to bring them to book. But financial crime has never been as lucrative as now on the world’s poorest continent.…