Activists, academics and civil society met in Accra 12-14 May for a conference entitled "Corporate Globalisation & the Scramble for Africa's Water: scrutinising the roles of Bretton Woods Institutions & donor community".
Sub-Saharan Africa
Environment
News
Le projet pétrolier Tchad-Cameroun: leçons préliminaires
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Finance
News
Bank hypocrisy over Nestlé claim
A Nestl
Accountability
News
IFIs withhold support from Equatorial Guinea
The IMF and the WB will withhold assistance from Equatorial Guinea until President Obiang accounts for the use of oil revenues.
Conditionality
News
Ghana faces IMF arm-twisting
After the IMF intensified retaliatory measures on Ghana for failing to comply with its requirements, the country now appears eager to please the Washington institution, probably at a high social cost.
Infrastructure
News
Transparency of power agreements faulted
The World Bank recently argued that it could not release the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) of the Nam Theun II dam in Laos because “it is a proprietary agreement and IDA is not at liberty to disclose it without the agreement of the signatories”.
Social services
Commentary
The Fund or the people?
Mulima Kufekisa Akapelwa, Economic Justice Programme Coordinator for the Catholic Centre for Justice, Development and Peace, says that IMF-forced privatisation leads Zambians to ask who their government answers to.
Social services
News
Ghana water privatisation disputed by independent analysts
An international fact-finding mission on plans to reform the water sector in Ghana made its conclusions public before the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF.
Environment
News
New claim on Chad-Cameroon project
Communities in Cameroon affected by the World Bank financed Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline have filed a new claim with the Bank’s Inspection Panel.
Accountability
News
Lesotho corruption verdict
Following a seven month trial, Canadian company Acres International was convicted on two counts of bribing an official to secure contracts for the Lesotho Highland Water Project, which received financing from the World Bank.
Land
News
IFI role in Southern Africa famine condemned
A new study from Oxfam questions why, after years of World Bank and IMF-designed agricultural sector reforms, Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique face chronic food insecurity.
Rights
News
Africans challenge monopoly on policies
Activists from Eastern and Southern Africa gathered in Nairobi early August to discuss a civil society Economic Policy Project launched by MWENGO, a reflection and development centre for NGOs in the region.
