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...powers. In the 1967-70 civil war in Nigeria, Ghana's regional neighbor, a million died. By the 1970s, Africa had become one of the hottest fronts in the cold war. Both superpowers propped up dictators and forced their economic policies onto their struggling clients, both stoked corruption and graft, and both fueled internal struggles such as the hellish wars that followed independence in Portugal's colonies of Mozambique and Angola. "We had lots of fears. There was no freedom of speech," says Kwame, about the time of troubles. "You go about and you see the army. The economy...
...colonel had taken the law into his own hands. The tax-free windfall from the sale of Shin Corp., which sparked the mass public protests in Bangkok against Thaksin, hardly burnished his cultivated image as a simple man of the people. And his tenure was plagued by accusations of graft. The CNS is currently investigating 52 cases of possible corruption or abuse of power during his time in office and has said it may bring charges by the end of February. Thaksin's old Thai Rak Thai party is also being probed for possible electoral fraud in the polls last...
Rather than waiting for governments to act, some corporate executives are trying to persuade their peers to join forces against graft. In 2002, for example, mining companies agreed to a set of ground rules called the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (eiti), under which they disclose their payments to government. Alan Boeckmann, chairman and chief executive of the giant U.S. construction company Fluor, is trying to extend such cooperation to other industries. So far he has persuaded some of his rivals, partners and customers to join an anticorruption initiative, which now has more than 100 signatories. "I am seeing change, although...
This movement against graft faces its biggest test in the BAE Systems case. Anticorruption advocates are livid. "There are great concerns around the world about this decision to stop the investigation. It's just what we tell everyone not to do," says Huguette Labelle, chancellor of the University of Ottawa , who chairs the board of Transparency International, an anticorruption pressure group. She points to a glaring discrepancy in the behavior of the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who spearheaded the eiti and has made good governance a cornerstone of his African aid policy. "It's difficult to understand...
...legislative panel that inspected the site on Jan. 21 said the construction of the tarmac may have been substandard, adding to a lengthening list of problems surrounding Suvarnabhumi's launch-including widespread graft allegations-and prompting Thailand's Transport Ministry to order an independent inquiry into the cracks. IOT, the Thai-Japanese contractor for the airfield surface, denied any defects in construction, blaming the damage on excess groundwater from recent floods seeping under the concrete...