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Category Archives: Africa

Why don’t NGOs pay Kidnap Ransoms?

07/05/2012
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By Eric Joyce

The murder last week in Pakistan of Scottish nurse Khalil Dale raises a difficult question no-one seems keen to address.  That is; why do NGOs which deploy people to the…..

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Posted in Africa
Tagged Kand R, Khali dale, Ransom Pakistan

Un député va transmettre des informations au sujet de sociétés fictives au Serious Fraud Office

25/11/2011
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By Eric Joyce

Un député va transmettre des informations au sujet de sociétés fictives au Serious Fraud Office List of shell companies FRENCH Dans le plus récent d’une série de communiqués au sujet…..

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Tagged Congo

Congo shell companies reported to Serious Fraud Office

24/11/2011
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More evidence of wholesale asset-stripping in the Congo.  Read my press-release first then view details of 45 shell companies and some of the people involved. DRC shell companies In the…..

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Tagged Congo

Ugandan Lake Albert oil developments yield billions

23/11/2011
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By Eric Joyce

Shell companies in the BVI and South Africa continue to drain Congo’s wealth.  Read my press release below first, documenting how more billions have disappeared from the Congo.   The…..

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Tagged Congo, DRC, Oil

Billions in undervalued state asset sales in the Congo

20/11/2011
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By Eric Joyce

New documents provide further details of undervaluation of state assets, sold to off shore ‘shell’ companies at a loss of $1B to the Congolese people. Documents appear to show, in…..

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Tagged Congo, mining

Billions in underpriced DRC state asset sales

18/11/2011
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By Eric Joyce

I’m chair of the All Party African Great Lakes Group (www.africangreatlakes.com), with over 200 MPs and Lords we’re one of the largest and most active groups at the UK parliament.For…..

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Tagged Congo, Glencore

The Rwandan Digital Economy #digitaldevelopment

20/09/2010
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By Eric Joyce

I spent this morning in Kigale with Ignace Gatari, the phenomenally smart Rwandan ICT minister. Elsewhere, Gordon Brown (who recently joined the WWW Foundation) met Ignace’s boss, president Kagame, in New York to…..

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Tagged #digitaldevelopment, Rwanda, world wide web

Foreign Policy and Gender-based Violence

12/09/2010
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By Eric Joyce

In late July and early August, 500 Congolese women and children were systematically raped, mainly in a village called Luvungi. The reports mainly miss out the name of the group…..

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Tagged Congo, DRC, FDLR, Rape

BBC ASKS ‘SHOULD HOMOSEXUALS FACE EXECUTION?’

16/12/2009
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By Eric Joyce

Read this BBC link.  It’s the BBC asking ostensibly African viewers whether homosexuals should face execution.  Except most of the respondees are from within the UK.  What’s happened here, I…..

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