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Monday, January 1, 2007
On December 31, 2006, the wall of the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India’s Narmada valley was raised to 122 meters. The Sardar Sarovar Dam is the largest in a series of dams, reservoirs and...
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Wednesday, January 27, 1999
A global water crisis is brewing, scientists
warn, and we must
find new solutions or face the specter of widespread water warfare.
Water management experts say the large–scale...
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Friday, October 1, 1999
In July, it was revealed in a respected South African newspaper
that a dozen major international dam–building companies involved
in the World Bank–funded Lesotho Highlands Water Project (...
In the Media
Published date:
Friday, August 13, 1999
Corruption and the World BankMonday, August 23, 1999; Page A16 The following is a letter from Lori Pottinger, International Rivers’s Southern Africa Program director to The Washington...
In the Media
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Tuesday, August 17, 1999
BUSINESS Day’s exposure of bribery on the Lesotho Highlands
Water Project is a pointer to the degree to which the practice
of
corruption is increasingly becoming the norm in substantial...
In the Media
Published date:
Friday, August 13, 1999
It’s a tale involving millions of dollars allegedly
funneled into Swiss bank accounts by giant
international companies competing to build one of the
biggest infrastructure projects under...
In the Media
Published date:
Wednesday, May 1, 1996
MAPELENG, LESOTHO –– Small earthquakes have been rumbling in recent
months through the Maluti Mountains in the small
landlocked nation
of Lesotho, which is entirely surrounded by South...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
World Bank Finally Debars Company Convicted of Bribing in Lesotho
The World Bank at long last has debarred a company convicted of
corruption on Africa’s largest dam project, nearly two...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003
The Lesotho High Court yesterday convicted Lahmeyer International, a German engineering consulting firm, of paying approximately US$550,000 in bribes to the former chief executive of the...
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Monday, December 9, 2002
The family faced the danger of being swallowed up by the giant Mohale dam of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
At long last there seems to be some hope for the Lakabane family...
In the Media
Published date:
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
As the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) continues to
compensate communities affected by the giant Lesotho Highlands Water
Project (LHWP) in the Butha–Buthe district,...
In the Media
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Thursday, November 14, 2002
As the impoundment of the Mohale reservoir of the giant Lesotho Highlands
Development Project (LHWP) which started on Friday, November 1, 2002 is
regarded as a milestone in the...
In the Media
Published date:
Thursday, November 14, 2002
It is the largest water scheme of its kind in the world. It is a brilliant
engineering feat surpassed by none of its kind, and has opened once
inaccessible rugged Lesotho highlands...
Article
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Friday, September 20, 2002
Company May Face Disbarment by World Bank
The Lesotho High Court today convicted Acres International, a Canadian
engineering consulting firm, of paying bribes to win contracts on a
multi...
In the Media
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Monday, September 16, 2002
A tale of Swiss bank accounts and battered reputations unfolds in a courtroom in faraway Lesotho
In a large brick courthouse in uptown Maseru,
Lesotho, a gavel will pound down on a...
Article
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Tuesday, November 27, 2001
More than 2000 demonstrators converged on three major dams in Lesotho on November 19 during a massive coordinated protest. Police responded violently at Mohale Dam, injuring three elderly...
In the Media
Published date:
Monday, June 5, 2000
The Lesotho Highlands Water
Project corruption trial begins
on Monday, with some of the world’s
largest construction companies
among the accused.
It started as a
run–of–the–mill...
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Sunday, June 18, 2000
People due to be resettled by the
second dam in the giant Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) in southern
Africa have issued a declaration to project authorities which, among other...
Article
Published date:
Tuesday, October 31, 2000
Rivers affected by the 5–dam Lesotho
Highlands Water Project (LHWP) could deteriorate to "something akin
to waste–water drains" if Lesotho delivers as much water to South
Africa...
Article
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Article
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Saturday, November 6, 2004
A Review of The World’s Banker, A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations by Sebastian Mallaby (Penguin Press, October 2004)In The World’s Banker,...
In the Media
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A Namibian nongovernmental organization has proposed alternative sources of power and water that could be developed instead of the controversial Epupa hydroelectric scheme and the Okavango...
Article
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Friday, July 7, 2006
Equator Principles Re–LaunchedBankTrack welcomes any initiative that enhances the social and environmental sustainability of bank financing operations. BankTrack acknowledges the...
In the Media
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Thursday, July 6, 2006
Dozens of commercial banks and lenders, including global heavyweights like Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Standard Chartered, signed an updated set of environmental and social safeguards on...
Article
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Monday, May 1, 2006
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has called corruption the single most important obstacle to development and has ratcheted up the fight against graft in Bank projects. While this effort...
In the Media
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Sunday, July 9, 2000
A long–delayed meeting between Namibia and Angola to decide the fate of the Epupa hydropower project, scheduled for early July, was postponed after officials from Angola did not show up....
Article
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
A Critique of the World Bank Paper, Clean Energy and Development: Towards an Investment FrameworkPrepared for the Development Committee Meeting Introduction At the Gleneagles G8 Summit held...
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Thursday, March 13, 2003
International NGO
media release, March 13, 2003:
An international
coalition of 120 environmental organizations today called on private banks
and international financial...
Article
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Friday, October 5, 2007
The World Bank, Dams and the Quest for Reparations The World Bank has been the largest single source of funds for large dam construction worldwide. Under its stated aim of alleviating...
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Published date:
Friday, April 1, 2005
Since World War II some 45,000 large dams have been built, generating an estimated 20 percent of the world’s electricity and providing irrigation to fields that produce some 10 percent of...
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