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COLOMBIA: Vote-Buying and Front Men
By Javier Darío Restrepo*
BOGOTÁ - During Sunday's legislative elections in Colombia - in which rightwing President Álvaro Uribe's allies were the big winners - polling stations in one-third of the country's municipalities were at risk of violence, corruption or fraud, according to the ombudsman's office and election observers, who reported vote-buying and pressure on voters.
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AFRICA: Corruption Carries High Cost, World Bank Says
By Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON - Poverty is on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and various forms of corruption threaten to undermine the impact of investments made to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the continent, said the World Bank in a report released Monday on Africa's development.
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FINANCE: Self-Policing of Extractive Industries a "Dismal" Failure
By Charles Fromm
WASHINGTON - An international initiative that seeks to reform how governments profit from their natural resources should not reduce its existing standards of membership solely because candidate countries have been reluctant or incapable of meeting them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
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UGANDA: Pressure Mounts to Make Public Oil Agreements
By Joshua Kyalimpa
KAMPALA - Uganda’s members of parliament (MPs) are pressurising government to make public details of oil production-sharing agreements it signed with various international oil companies.
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U.S.: Blackwater's Migraines Multiply
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Legal headaches are growing exponentially for the security firm formerly known as Blackwater – once the darling of the military-industrial community.
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EUROPE: Tax Evasion Rampant Despite Treaties With Tax Havens
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - New cases of tax evasion in several European countries are showing the limits of the informal agreements reached between the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and tax havens such as Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.
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MIDEAST: Dubai Hit Exposes Hamas's Weaknesses
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Hamas has closed ranks and is licking its wounds following the Jan. 20 assassination in Dubai of one of its top operatives, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh. It is alleged that one of its own was responsible for providing the hit team with vital logistical information.
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Q&A: "It's Not Easy to Fight Impunity"
Jim Lobe interviews Guatemalan President ÁLVARO COLOM
WASHINGTON - Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom said he intends to extend the mandate of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), in this interview with IPS during a three-day visit to the United States.
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DEVELOPMENT: Free Hungry Mouths of Red Tape
By Paul Virgo
ROME - Developing countries must tone down the booming voice bureaucrats have in policies and target corruption if commitments to defeat hunger are to be turned into action, leaders and experts at a United Nations meeting said Wednesday.
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POLITICS-TOGO: First Female Presidential Candidate
By Noël Kokou Tadégnon*
LOME - Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson, head of the opposition Democratic Convention of African Peoples party, is Togo's first female presidential candidate. But she has withdrawn from the electoral process.
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ENVIRONMENT-HONDURAS: Forest Corruption a Major Challenge
By Thelma Mejía*
TEGUCIGALPA - The effects of climate change in Honduras have a local accomplice. Not only are forests suffering from global warming; they are also the victim of illegal logging.
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MIDEAST: Scandals, Assassination Plan Rock Palestinian Authority
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - The Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah is fighting a tidal wave of fresh allegations, including sexual harassment, an internal power struggle and embezzlement.
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U.S.: Mandated Oversight Missing in Afghan Contracts
By Sananda Sahoo
WASHINGTON - Lack of oversight of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors in Afghanistan is not a new story.
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IRAQ: Govt Expels Former Blackwater Contractors
By Charles Fromm
WASHINGTON - The Iraqi government has ordered hundreds of private security contractors who previously worked for Blackwater Worldwide or its subsidiaries to leave the country within seven days or risk arrest for visa violations, Iraq's interior minister said Wednesday.
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ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
By IPS Correspondents
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.
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Corruption depletes national wealth and undercuts legitimacy. Transparency International says corruption is often to blame for already limited public resources being diverted to uneconomic high-profile projects, at the expense of less spectacular but more necessary development initiatives. Civil society is finding its voice to demand that those behind corrupt acts are held accountable.