In October, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) asked the High Court in Lagos to declare as illegal, pressures by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on President Olusegun Obasanjo to implement their economic policies on Nigerians.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Environment
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Chad-Cameroon mechanism contested
Civil society groups have provided detailed comments to the World Bank on the proposed International Advisory Group which is supposed to monitor implementation of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline.
Rights
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Chad-Cameroon latest
The World Bank Board approved the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project in early June.
Social services
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Bank announces major AIDS funding
The World Bank announced in early July that it is to make available $500 million in loans to help countries combat the growing threat of AIDS.
Conditionality
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Mozambique sugar industry threatened
The IMF looks set to repeat mistakes which led to the demise of Mozambique’s cashew processing industry.
Accountability
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Kenya MPs urge aid halt over graft
In mid-July 64 Kenyan MPs signed a statement urging the IMF and World Bank to suspend discussions on new loans to their government after a select committee report into corruption was cut, deleting the names of some politicians and civil servants.
Rights
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Köhler go home say South Africans
In July South African activists told IMF Managing Director Horst K
Conditionality
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Nigerian parliament rejects IMF
In July, the Nigerian House of Representatives adopted a non-binding motion urging the federal government to suspend all activities in respect of an IMF standby loan until the conditions were made public.
Social services
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Police break up anti-IMF protests in Zambia
In April protesters outside a Lusaka hotel where IMF and Zambian officials were meeting were dispersed by armed riot police in Zambia.
Conditionality
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IMF demands Cote d’Ivoire austerity
The IMF has told the transition government in Cote d’Ivoire that it should cut government spending after finding that spending was more than double the level agreed by the former president, who was overthrown in December 1999.
Rights
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Anti-IMF And Bank Protest Tear-Gassed
In Malawi in May, a peaceful official demonstration, led by the Congress of Trades Unions, against IMF and World Bank reform policies and calling for the government to consider peoples’ needs before conceding to donors’ demands was broken-up by police with tear gas.
Knowledge
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Knowledge Bank’s Power In South Africa
A new book on South Africa includes fascinating material on the World Bank’s role as policy advocate for the post-apartheid era.
