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OIE SCRAPIE/BSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has warned that atypical cases of BSE and scrapie have been discovered in France and specialists are conducting follow-up studies. The six unusual BSE cases and three scrapie cases were discovered around the country during routine checks by the French Agency for Food Safety.…
SIERRA LEONE & LIBERIA
BY RICHARD HURST
The former British colony of Sierra Leone has been a focus of a money laundering scandal since the September 11 attacks in the US, when it was uncovered (in the New York Times) that a senior member of the al Qaeda organisation, Ibrahim Bah, had been purchasing and stockpiling diamonds mined by the country’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.…
COTE D'IVOIRE & GHANA
BY RICHARD HURST
The Ivory Coast used to be a model of stability in west Africa, but the outbreak of civil war has done little to improve the country’s status in terms of money laundering, said an assessment by the US State Department.…
UKRAINE BOTTLES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UKRAINE’S Gostomel Glass Factory is borrowing US$17 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to build a new plant, enabling it to produce 600,000 beer bottles a day. Existing Gostomel clients include Coca Cola, Sun Interbrew, BBH and the St Petersburg-based breweries Baltika and Vena.…
UNDERGROUND STORAGE EXPERTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of countries have formed a network of excellence developing expertise in the deep underground storage of radioactive waste. Coordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, participants include Belgium’s Hades Underground Research Facility in Mol; Canada’s Underground Research Laboratory of Lac-du-Bonnet, Manitoba; Switzerland’s Grimsel Test Site and Mont-Terri Underground Research Laboratory; Britain’s Geo-Environmental Research Centre, Cardiff; and the USA’s WIPP facility, New Mexico, the Yucca Mountain Project, Nevada, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, San Francisco.…
BAINS TAKEOVER
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE ACQUISITION by the international fund management group Bain Capital of Interfer, a German-based company active in the processing and trading of steel, metal, plastic and ferrous products, non-ferrous metals and alloys, has been approved by the European Commission.…
BULGARIA LOAN
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 50 million via Bulgarian banks to finance energy efficiency and small renewable energy projects in the country’s private sector. This money would be combined with an extra Euro 10 million from the Kozloduy International Decomissioning and Support Fund (KIDSF), which was set up to help Bulgaria cope with the loss of power supplies caused by the decommissioning of the Kozloduy nuclear power station.…
FISH FARMING INTERNATIONAL
From Alan Osborn
The European Parliament has acted under its own initiative to put
up a plan to protect the EU’s tuna industry – both the fleet and the
canning sector. The Parliament has approved a report by a Spanish member,
Daniel VARELA SUANZES-CARPEGNA, which urges a reversal of present EU
policy towards the industry and calls for creation of a new
properly-staffed and financed unit within the European Commission to deal
with tuna.…
UNRELIABLE POWER SYSTEMS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE is a significant risk that Europe’s summer of blackouts could be repeated after 2008, unless effective investments are made in power generation and distribution plant, the Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE), has warned.…
IRAQ FUND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is to administer an Iraq Trust Fund, which will finance emergency projects and technical assistance, supported by international donors. The scheme will also fund economic and sectoral work, as foundations for a future expanded development assistance programme.…