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News headlines for “Corruption”, page 30
AFGHANISTAN: The Cheap Way to Hell
- Inter Press Service
For the last three weeks, 30-year-old Ghulam Nabi has lain in a Kabul hospital bed, suffering. His face is etched with hopelessness, loneliness and despair over the life he once had and has now lost forever.
CENTRAL AMERICA: The World's Most Violent Region
- Inter Press Service
Although the UNDP's Report on Human Development in Central America 2009-2010 says the region has the highest rates of non-political crime in the world, there are nevertheless plenty of opportunities to improve public security, analysts and experts say.
ZAMBIA: Holding Government Responsible for Spending
- Inter Press Service
The government’s change of the Budget cycle to improve its spending of money to develop the country is not good enough unless those in charge of the money are made accountable, say civil society.
AFRICA: Government on Collision Course with Civil Society
- Inter Press Service
The acquittal of former President Frederick Chiluba on charges of theft after a seven-year long landmark case, and the refusal by the Zambian government to appeal, has put government and civil society on a collision course.
EAST TIMOR: Slow Progress for Corruption Watchdog
- Inter Press Service
A lack of political will to tackle corruption in East Timor is holding the country back, said Sebastiao Ximenes, East Timor’s Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice.
SIERRA LEONE: Journalists at War with Highest Court
- Inter Press Service
Umaru Fofana looks dishevelled. His hair is overgrown and people who do not know him could be mistaken for thinking he just joined an Afro band. And his hanging beard will surely solicit suspicious glances.
POLITICS: U.N. Infighting Threatens to Upstage Afghan War
- Inter Press Service
The increasingly deadly battle between Western military forces and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan is on the verge of being upstaged by a growing political brawl between two senior U.N. officials overseeing the battle-ravaged South Asian nation.
US-ZIMBABWE: Yearlong Sanctions Bring Few Reforms
- Inter Press Service
More than a year after the signing of an agreement to bring democracy to Zimbabwe, the United States continues to maintain sanctions against the southern African nation.
POLITICS: China Swaggers On, Yet Future Looks Uncertain
- Inter Press Service
Showing off China’s new wealth and national might on the anniversary of the birth of the People’s Republic, the country’s leaders attributed its rise as a rejuvenated world power to the 60 years of communist rule. But behind the shock-and-awe military parade displaying their vaunted confidence hovered uncertainty and anxiety about the future.
Q&A: Heavy Vehicle Market Taking Off in Africa
- Inter Press Service
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s recent official visit to a handful of African countries has provided new impetus to Russian business’s interest in the region.
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