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[from amaah] Money Laundering And Foreign Corruption: Case Study Involving Riggs Bank (pdf)
The Senate report on Riggs bank and its dealings with Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea's strongman, and Pinochet, Chile's erstwhile dictator. It takes two to do the corruption tango.
[from bushwald] Rice Delivers Stark Assessment of Zimbabwe's President
"But Rice's visit here also underscored the limits of U.S. influence at the world body..." who's picking up the slack, then? Too bad the story doesn't answer it's own implied question.
[from amaah] An Abandoned Oasis Of American Comfort In Tiny Guinea-Bissau
Meanwhile, as the Americans let their embassy decay, the Chinese are pouring money into theirs. Next door to the U.S. ambassador's crumbling residence, a flashy-looking Chinese Embassy stands behind a gleaming white wall. Modern buildings that appear to b
[from amaah] Gaddafi Plotted to Bomb Kenya
Nice little episode featuring a cold war rogues gallery: Gaddafi, Bush, Mobutu, Arap Moi of Kenya. Cross-border intrigues, CIA pawns, He of the little Green Book fought all over the continent... Fodder for the book on Fallen Angels. via benin mwangi
[from amaah] Some Revolutionaries March; Afrobeat Dances
30 years ago, Afrobeat was the most important new music in Africa, fusing James Brown-style funk, African rhythms and urgent messages of political confrontation. this profoundly African music has found a new home - in America.
[from amaah] Africa Command: Opportunity for Enhanced Engagement or the Militarization of U.S.-Africa Relations?
For a long time, the strategic thinking has been that the U.S. has "no compelling interests in Africa" and "do not want anybody else to have any, either." However, whenever a non-Western nation or idea made its way into Africa, the U.S. got very n
[from amaah] The Americans Have Landed
The story of Africa Command, the American military's new frontier outpost.... Well join the crowd: the Europeans have had their time and the Chinese are having fun too...when two elephants fight it is the grass that gets hurt - angolan proverb. We'll see.
[from amaah] Lawmaker Indicted on Corruption Charges
11 bribery and fraud schemes: telecommunications deals in Nigeria and Ghana, oil concessions in Equatorial Guinea, waste-recycling systems in Nigeria and the Nigerian sugar plant for which he sought Export-Import Bank financing.
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[from amaah] African Opinion on U.S. Policies, Values, and People - House Testimony (pdf)
those with greater historical perspective are less, not more, supportive of the US. to my surprise, Africans prefer their former colonial rulers more than the US those who disapprove of former colonial powers are also more likely to reject the US