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Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe | Feb. 25, 2002 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola Savimbi death offers peace and chance for reflection on natural resources that fund conflict in Angola and across Africa Following nearly four decades of conflict, the death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi on Friday offers a window for peace in Angola in which to address the role of oil and diamonds in funding the civil war. | Feb. 22, 2002 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola Difficult questions for Bush and dos Santos on Angolan oil sleaze, starving children, and billions of disappearing dollars On Tuesday 26th February, President Bush will meet with the unaccountable leader of a country that “tolerates starvation” and is “not transparent”. However, he is not from North Korea but from oil-rich Angola. When they meet, President Bush must call President dos Santos of Angola to account over Angola’s failed state and the full-scale embezzlement of oil money by its ruling elite. Global Witness director Simon Taylor said, “this is a great chance for President Bush to provide a clear message about the importance of corporate transparency in the post-Enron era”. | Feb. 8, 2002 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola Blair and Chirac must require transparency of resource revenues as a key to African development Tony Blair’s call for a clamp down on companies that fuel wars across Africa is a landmark statement that must be followed with genuine regulatory action. The lack of transparency in resource extraction industries across Africa sees the corporate sector providing major funds to unaccountable military and political elites who then use conflict to cover corruption and embezzlement in countries such as Angola (oil and diamonds), Democratic Republic of Congo (timber, diamonds, coltan), Sierra Leone (diamonds, Liberian timber) and the Sudan (oil). | Dec. 13, 2001 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola Financial analysts reveal Angolan Government’s shameful secret. Where are the ‘missing billions’? Reuters in Luanda reported yesterday that US$1.5 billion in oil revenues, over one-third of Angola’s US$3-5 billion in total income - went missing last year. | Dec. 13, 2001 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola Financial analysts reveal Angolan Government’s shameful secret. Where are the ‘missing billions’? Reuters in Luanda reported yesterday that US$1.5 billion in oil revenues, over one-third of Angola’s US$3-5 billion in total income - went missing last year. | Dec. 11, 2001 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola Global Witness congratulates D. Zacarias Kamuenho and seeks further moves to empower civil society in Angola Global Witness congratulates the European Parliament for its decision to award the Sakharov Prize to Archbishop D. Zacarias Kamuenho of Lubango, head of the Angolan Catholic Church. The award recognises his work in defence of human rights and the promotion of peace in Angola, and it represents the first formal European parliamentary recognition of the effort being undertaken by an increasingly pro-active Angolan civil society in its struggle to achieve peace following the devastation of forty years of conflict. | Feb. 15, 2001 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola TotalFinaElf make non-statement for Transparency in Angola In an attempt this Tuesday by TotalFinaElf to “match” BP’s position on transparency in Angola, the French oil major declared that it had turned over “precise technical and financial information” to the IMF and the World Bank. | Feb. 12, 2001 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola Campaign Success: BP makes move for Transparency in Angola One year after Global Witness published its report “A Crude Awakening”, which examined massive corruption in Angola and the role of the oil and banking industries, BP have become the first oil company to make a decisive and welcome gesture for transparency in the war-torn country. The scale of corruption in Angola is very high, where the war has been privatised to the vested interests of top Angolan officials. There is no press freedom to question this situation. There is no data available to Angolans to hold their Government to account for its actions and expenditure. | Jan. 24, 2001 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola An open letter to oil company executives: Oil Company transparency & Angola 24th January 2001 Dear Re: Oil Company transparency & Angola: | Jan. 24, 2001 Corruption & Money Laundering Oil, Gas & Mining Angola Open letter to Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce and Trade Partners: Oil and Gas Company transparency & Angola 24th January 20001 Dear Re: Oil and Gas Company transparency & Angola: In December 1999,Global Witness published the report “A Crude Awakening”, which examined massive corruption and the impact of the lack transparency of oil companies operating in Angola. Since publication, Global Witness has continued a twin-track approach to this issue – with both investigations into the activities of the architects of state robbery in Angola, and through dialogue with the oil companies. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10