Location: Sub-Saharan Africa

The private sector in Ghana’s water – a strategy to serve or steal?West Africa Pipeline approved despite resistanceFund irate over NGO claims that it blocks progress on AIDSChad-Cameroon pipeline: Corruption and double standardsPrivate sector safeguard review continues despite boycottsWolfensohn: African governance “polluted”Bretton Woods Institutions should “start a new life”: Chinese central bank governorDebt sustainability: Oasis or mirage?Bank approves Ghana water loanCorruption in Mozambique goes unchallengedBank constructs “governance states”African directors capacity fund underwayWolfensohn meets with Congolese groupsLandmark decision: Canadian company debarredMoving the goalposts: Zambia’s misery prolongedAfrican Executive Directors’ support fundCongolese groups unite to demand scrutiny of forest policiesIraq and Ethiopia treatment shows debt relief double standardsWorld Bank pushes Malawi agriculture privatisationParliaments: the missing link in democratising national policy making