From: llk@kepler.unh.edu (Local Genius)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: IPS:KENYA: HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS ASSAIL NEW WORLD BANK LOAN
Date: 20 Dec 1992 05:41:08 GMT
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In article <BzIpqD.5HG@ddsw1.mcs.com> barnhart@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Mr. Aaron Barnhart) writes:
>Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
>print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.
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>Reference: Human Rights; Third World Dvpmnt; Trade & Finance
>Title: KENYA: HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS ASSAIL NEW WORLD BANK LOAN
>
>
>washington, dec 11 (ips/jim lobe) -- representatives of major u.
>s. human rights groups friday assailed the world bank for
>approving a new credit to help the government of kenyan
>president daniel arap moi reform and sell off parastatal
>organisations less than three weeks before elections.
>
>announcement of the 23.3 million dollar credit thursday night
>took many observers here by surprise.  western donors announced
>13 months ago a freeze on new loans and credits to kenya pending
>major economic and political reforms by the moi government.
>
>the new credit was the first provided by the bank since last
>february when it approved two projects totaling about 100
>million dollars to help preserve kenya's wildlife and underwrite
>a water supply project for mombasa.
>
>bank sources told ips thursday's credit did not represent
>''any change in the bank's approach to kenya.''  one official
>noted that the bank did not join in the statement about the aid
>freeze issued by the donors at a meeting of the bank-chaired
>consultative group for kenya in paris in november, 1991.
>
>but the fact that the new credit was announced less than
>three weeks before the controversial dec. 29 elections -- the
>first multi-party poll in kenya's history -- angered human
>rights monitors who had hoped that the bank would use its
>considerable leverage with kenya to help assure fair elections.
>
>election observers here, including the international human
>rights law group and members of a team from the international
>branch of the u.s. republican party, who have recently visited
>kenya have expressed strong doubts about the fairness of the
>voting.

I dunno who runs the world bank but it seems it is in the habit
of screwing up in lots of countries...and they like to claim that
they are non-political...

it doesn't make any sense to me when the people who supply the
bank with the dinero decide to withhold aid for kenya until
certain conditions are met and the world bank proceeds and
supplies econo-aid...

methinks this is totally unproductive in certain situations...
and there are zillions of examples where this has and continues
to happen...whose side is this bank on?














































































































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