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<title>EIN News: West Africa Corruption News</title>
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<title>Children of the black dust</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192871130</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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...  largely due to the unnatural calamity of corruption that reaches into every imaginable government office.  ...  -- working children from Central and South America,West Africa and Asia -- concluded, &quot;Action should be  ...
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<title>Peak oil review</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192860012</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 15:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  infrastructure is notoriously easy to disrupt. In Nigeria foreign oil technicians are rapidly being driven  ...  million barrels per day by 2010, the African nation&apos;s oil minister said last week. (10/8,  ...  , high oil prices have combined with corruption and mismanagement to inflict huge damage on  ...
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<title>Nigeria: N11 Million Contract Scam - Aliero to Face Trail</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192859090</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 15:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the web 13 October 2008 The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)  ...  of their investigation discovered that P.P Madus Nigeria Limited Company at the time the contract  ...  Standard Trust Bank (now United Bank for Africa Plc) to the tune of N6, 595,  ...
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<title>EAC Needs to Shift Gears to Keep Ambitious Plans On Track</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192848430</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 14:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  2008 The verdict is out. The East African Community albeit considered a leading regional economic  ...  the region and the continent in particular. Burkina Faso, Botswana and South Africa were lauded  ...  the various spheres such as transparency and corruption, rule of law, sustainable economic opportunities and  ...
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<title>Uganda backs calls for a new province in USA and Canada</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192824228</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 12:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and watched their churches decline, we in Africa took the challenge of evangelism seriously. The Church in Nigeria grew dramatically, chiefly through planting churches and  ...  had one of the highest levels of corruption in the world. I have come to  ...
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<title>Mystery of Spectacular IPOs</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192818370</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 11:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to the third largest livestock herd in Africa -- after the Sudan and Ethiopia. It  ...  on the continent after South Africa and Ghana. But, 66 per cent of the population  ...  illegal activities like smuggling/tax evasion, drug-dealing and fraud involving public resources by those in high  ...
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<title>Drug trade spilling over to addiction</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192816879</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 11:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  // Now the epicentre of an expanding West African cocaine trade, Guinea-Bissau is confronting an entirely  ...  US$1.8 billion (Dh6.6bn) worth of cocaine transits West Africa each year. The drug is worth up  ...
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<title>Mauritanian refugees sit in limbo</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192816874</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 11:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  30,000 are still stranded in Senegal and Mali. Last year, the countrys first democratically elected  ...  arrest, where he remains. On Thursday, the African Union, the United Nations and the Arab  ...  try Mr Abdallahi on charges ranging from corruption to obstructing parliament. Also on Sept 9,  ...
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<title>Rule of law dies in drug smugglers&apos; paradise</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192816864</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 11:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a tiny former Portuguese colony on the West African coast that seems in a perpetual state  ...  The incident points to one reason why West Africa has become a drug smugglers paradise   ...
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<title>President Museveni is on the right track</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192809624</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 10:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  way their taxes are used. Untill institutionalised corruption with impunity is delt with strongly in  ...  we go the resource curse way like Nigeria or The Prosperity way of Norway. Matt  ...  be convinced by by an overweight, shaven, african tin-pot dictator that investing in such a  ...
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<title>Andy Uba - Time to Move On</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192804738</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 09:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  when the ovation is loudest. But, in Africa, the reverse has been the case. Most  ...  out-used their resourcefulness all over Africa and Nigeria in particular. For Dr Andy Uba, a  ...  Ogbulafor, the main factor is the naivety, corrupting and ruffian politics of the former presidential  ...
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<title>African states converting iron ore reserves to cash</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192801894</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 09:20 GMT</pubDate>
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... African countries are trying to convert their reserves  ...  The Simandou iron ore project in poor West African state Guinea has been touted by majority  ...  failed state,&quot; said Rolake Akinola, Senior Analyst, West Africa at consultancy Control Risks. The country hopes  ...
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<title>Exclusive: Bogus brides scam fixer is arrested after police swoop</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192796845</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 08:23 GMT</pubDate>
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...  up fake marriages in a scam with African gangsters has been arrested in a dramatic  ...  who got cold feet over marrying a Ghanaian man was told she would be shot  ...  the African gangsters involved in the scam. Gambian Lamin Manneh was brought to justice in  ...
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<title>Exclusive: Bogus brides scram fixer is arrested after police swoop</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192786853</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 06:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  up fake marriages in a scam with African gangsters has been arrested in a dramatic  ...  who got cold feet over marrying a Ghanaian man was told she would be shot  ...  the African gangsters involved in the scam. Gambian Lamin Manneh was brought to justice in  ...
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<title>Conversation with Ghanaians; building the economy</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192778398</link>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2008 05:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  appear to be incompetent, cruel, divided and corrupt&quot; Harold Macmillan, one time British Chancellor described Ghanaians in a conversation in the British Cabinet,  ...  intellectual deprivation, the ugly, repulsive and hideous African poverty. In all human races majority of  ...
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