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Kenya ranks near the bottom of Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, beaten only by such "show-me-the-money" countries as Nigeria and Indonesia. High-level corruption continues unabated, as evidenced by the 1990s Goldenberg scandal - named for a company that allegedly exported nonexistent gold and then claimed export credits from the Central Bank. The financial scam cost Kenya at least $400 million and allegedly involved top officials and senior politicians close to President Daniel arap Moi. International donors have frozen funds earmarked for Kenya in large part because of the country's failure...
...doesn't Mbeki lower the boom on his dictatorial northern counterpart? The answer probably lies in Mbeki's greater plan for African solidarity, as espoused in the New Partnership for Africa's Development drawn up by him and other African leaders from Nigeria, Senegal, Eygpt and Algeria. NEPAD involves a "peer review" process to censure, possibly even intervene in, states that do not practice good governance. But Mbeki is not prepared to take such action unilaterally...
Where do the new New Yorkers come from? Everywhere. Large numbers of immigrants now arrive not just from such traditional countries of origin as Russia, Ireland and the Dominican Republic but also from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Egypt. To be Hispanic in New York once meant you were Puerto Rican. Not now. In 1990 there were only 62,000 Mexicans in the city; by 2000 there were an estimated...
...NIGERIA Fire and Fury in Lagos Mystery and anger surround explosions at a military barracks and arms depot in Lagos, in which more than 1,000 people were killed. Nearly 500 others - mostly children - are unaccounted for. The blasts, in the residential district of Ikeja, lasted for hours, propelling shells and burning debris for miles around and sending thousands fleeing for their lives. In the stampede, hundreds of terrified people drowned in two canals. As the army and both houses of Nigeria?s legislature began inquiries into the disaster, anger rose over the government?s past failure to move...
...NIGERIA Scarce Resources Fighting between villagers in central Nigeria and farmers in the east caused around 150 deaths as disputes over land and water rights turned violent. In central Nasarawa state, clashes over fishing access to a local lake left up to 100 dead and eight villages in ruins. On the Cameroon border, at least 50 people died following a dispute between indigenous farmers and settler tribesmen over grazing land. And in another incident of political feuding, a senior aide to Nigeria's top judge was found dead, two weeks after the unsolved murder of Justice Minister Bola...