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1.	Ethiopia, Kenya: World Bank approves controversial loan
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 13 July 2012
	Primary Category: Economic Justice	Document Origin: Human Rights Watch
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.hrw.org/
	Key Words: Ethiopia, Kenya, World Bank, Gibe III dam, transmission line, indigenous peoples
	Summary & Comment: The World Bank undermined the rights of indigenous peoples and the environment with its approval on July 12, 2012, of a US$684 million loan, Human Rights Watch, Friends of Lake Turkana, International Rivers, Survival International, and the Bank Information Center said today. The loan is for a 1000-kilometer transmission line that would supply power . . . [expand]
2.	Action urgently needed to stop off budget financing to Mugabe’s regime
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 20 June 2012
	Primary Category: Economic Justice	Document Origin: Global Witness
	Secondary Category: Zimbabwe	Source URL: http://www.globalwitness.org/
	Key Words: conflict diamonds, corruption, Zimbabwe, CIO, Central Intelligence Organisation, Sam Pa, Anjin Investments, Mugabe
	Summary & Comment: This report reveals how Zimbabwe’s feared secret police, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), appears to have received off-budget financing from Sam Pa, a businessman based in Hong Kong; and how members of the CIO are directors of a group of companies, Sino Zimbabwe Development. The report also exposes how a Zimbabwean military lawyer owns . . . [expand]
3.	Ghana: The growing wealth gap
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 18 June 2012
	Primary Category: Economic Justice	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: economy, Ghana, governance, income inequality
	Summary & Comment: Ghana’s oil-driven economic expansion is transforming the country. The economy grew by 14 percent in 2011, one of the fastest rates in Africa, and much of southern Ghana has prospered. Since 2000, the economy has recorded an average growth of five percent per annum, but it shot up in 2010 when oil production began, after significant off-shore oil r . . . [expand]
4.	New documents detail alleged grand corruption in Equatorial Guinea
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 12 June 2012
	Primary Category: Economic Justice	Document Origin: Global Witness
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL: http://www.globalwitness.org/
	Key Words: Equatorial Guinea, Teodorin Obiang, corruption, offshore assets
	Summary & Comment: A new US Department of Justice court filing has made substantial allegations of corruption against Teodorin Obiang, the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea. The document is part of a wider US effort to recover assets that it alleges are the proceeds of corruption. Teodorin was Minister of Forestry and Agriculture at the time of the allegation . . . [expand]
5.	The One Billion Dollar Question: How can Tanzania stop losing so much tax revenue
	Author: Mark Curtis	Date Written: 1 June 2012
	Primary Category: Economic Justice	Document Origin: TEC, BAKWATA, CCT
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://n/a
	Key Words: Tanzania, tax evasion, revenue loss, capital flight
	Summary & Comment: Below are excerpts from a 43 page report called "The One Billion Dollar Question". The one billion dollar question is: where is all the tax income that gold mining in Tanzania should generate for the government and its people? The report examines tax rates and policies, practices, and avoidance. Note the broad ecumenical cooperation behi . . . [expand]
6.	Climate will pose next threat to refugees from fighting and food shortages in Mali
	Author: Lisa Friedman & ClimateWire	Date Written: 31 May 2012
	Primary Category: Economic Justice	Document Origin: Scientific American
	Secondary Category: Food and Land	Source URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/
	Key Words: refugees, drought, climate change, Mali
	Summary & Comment: According to the U.N. High Commission on Refugees, more than 300,000 people have fled Mali since fighting erupted in the north in January between a Tuareg rebel movement and Malian government forces. The refugees have fled to neighbouring countries, putting even more stress on fragile environments in the Sahel, which has become the ground zero of t . . . [expand]
7.	Tanzania takes on counterfeits afresh
	Author: Mike Mande	Date Written: 10 March 2012
	Primary Category: Economic Justice	Document Origin: The East African
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/
	Key Words: counterfeit, economy, imports, business
	Summary & Comment: Tanzania is making a concerted effort to ensure business and consumers in the country are protected against counterfeit products. Studies to determine the impact of counterfeits will be undertaken later this year, but it is estimated they cost the Tanzanian government between 15 and 25 percent total domestic revenue annually, with China, India and . . . [expand]