- Vol 54 No 9
- 26th April 2013
The United States Supreme Court decided on 17 April to back a lower court’s refusal to hear a suit brought by Nigerians against Royal Dutch Shell for complicity in Nigerian government atrocities in Ogoniland in 1992-1995. Anxiously awaited, the ruling p...
- Vol 53 No 23
- 16th November 2012
Lobbyists failed to dilute the strong disclosure requirements that are now law in the USA but the transparency battle still rages in Europe
- Vol 53 No 23
- 16th November 2012
In August, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission published its 236-page guide to the operation of Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which governs transparency for extractive companies and other m...
- Vol 53 No 13
- 22nd June 2012
While Congo-Kinshasa’s Foreign Minister, Raymond Tshibanda N’tungamulongo, demanded that Rwanda immediately withdraw its support for militia in eastern Congo, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told a press conference on 19 June that he rejected all accusation...
- Vol 53 No 13
- 22nd June 2012
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is giving ‘appropriate consideration’ to a request that it share with the victims the financial penalties (‘disgorgement’) it levies on companies caught bribing foreign officials.
- Vol 53 No 2
- 20th January 2012
In its annual disclosures (also known as the 10-K Form) to the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York on 31 December 2010, United States-registered Cobalt reported that it had been ‘assigned’ Nazaki Oil & Gaz and Alper Oil as partners by the A...
- Vol 53 No 2
- 20th January 2012
The government appears indifferent about beefing up coastal security and introducing anti-pirate laws
- Vol 52 No 19
- 23rd September 2011
Gossip in Accra produced entertaining US diplomatic cables but raises serious questions about rising political tensions
- Vol 52 No 19
- 23rd September 2011
The President’s promise to fight corruption after the elections seems to have convinced neither diplomats nor voters
- Vol 52 No 19
- 23rd September 2011
The unredacted WikiLeaks release of US cables from Harare exposes senior politicians and soldiers to witch-hunts