Korruption und Misswirtschaft

Spiegel Von Evers, Marco Der Präsident von Gambia erregt Aufsehen: Er habe sensationelle Erfindungen gemacht und könne jetzt sogar Aids heilen. Kaum jemand seiner Landsleute traut sich, ihm zu widersprechen. Flüche lasten zuhauf auf Afrika: Hunger, Armut, Krieg, Korruption, Seuchen und Dürren. Und an der Spitze afrikanischer Staaten toben sich nicht selten clowneske Tyrannen aus - immer irrlichternd zwischen Irrsinn und Größenwahn, immer vollkommen inkompetent. Unvergessen ist Jean Bédel Bokassa von der Zentralafrikanischen Republik. Der hielt sich für den 13.

NEW STATESMAN Better off without us? Robert Calderisi … The African Union once vowed to shun anyone who took power militarily. Yet, five months ago, the continent's supreme political body chose Congo's Denis Sassou-Nguesso as its chairman. True, he was a compromise candidate, as it was Sudan's turn to take charge and a last-minute sense of decency prevailed. But the AU might as well have installed Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. The world was also kind to Sassou-Nguesso, writing off $2.9bn of Congolese debt in March.

The Scotsman "‘Institutions spend lots on war but nothing on the people’ " By DECLAN WALSH IN LUANDA WESTERN countries have slowed aid assistance to Angola, where around three million people need urgent help, over concerns about $1bn in "missing" government oil revenue. As hundreds of thousands of starving, bedraggled people emerge from their bush hiding places after years of civil war, British and international aid agencies are rushing to help. The Angolan government is also appealing for help.

D+C Development and Cooperation Cameron Duodu/Gemini Nigeria has struck a deal with banks in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Britain to get back about $1 billion in frozen assets, stolen by late military dictator General Sani Abacha and his family. Nigerian authorities have been trying to trace the money, which has been hidden in secret bank accounts in Switzerland and other countries, ever since Abacha died in June 1998.