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All the Presidents Men
The devastating story of oil and banking in Angola's privatised war.
All the Presidents Men is the product of two years of investigations, and
provides an update on the campaign for full transparency in the oil and
banking sector. It continues an exposé, which started with December 1999's
A Crude Awakening, into the mechanisms of wholesale state robbery in
Angola.
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Relatório completo: em Português
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Recomendacoes e Introducao e Parte 1 - The Scandal
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Parte 2 - A Cumplicidade das Empresas Petroliferas
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Parte 3 - O Financiamento, Conclusao e Referencias
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Tous Les Hommes des Présidents
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Recommandations et Partie 1a - Le Scandale PDF file (528k)
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Partie 3 - Le Financement; Conclusion et Références PDF file (492k)
In some countries, especially where ruling regimes are
unaccountable to their population, state institutions that govern resource
management exercise their powers as a form of private property rather than
as a public service. Thus, revenues from natural resources that should
promote development may serve to perpetuate and intensify national and
regional conflicts.
A central requirement for the safe operation of such 'grand corruption'
and the misappropriation of state funds is non-transparency over state
budgets and revenues. If companies working within such countries do not
publish what they pay to national governments, it is impossible for
ordinary citizens to call their government to account over the management
of rents earned from resources that should be managed in trust for the
general population. Global Witness oil campaign focuses on this problem in
Angola.
Investigations by Global Witness into Angola's oil sector shows how the
ruling elite are deliberately exploiting political disorder from the
country's civil war perpetuate highly organised economic abuses, up to and
including wholesale looting of state revenues. Top Government officials
appear to have privatised the military procurement process and now benefit
financially from almost every item consumed in the pursuit of the war
against UNITA: Angola's 30-year civil war has become, to all intents and
purposes, privatised.
The Angolan oil sector currently provides between 80-90% of the State's
revenue, worth about between US$3-5 billion each year, of which about
one-third 'disappeared' or is unaccounted for in 2001.
International oil companies and the banking sector remain complicit with
these activities as they refuse to publish what they part to the Angolan
government. Thus, they are partners in the dispossession and progressive
impoverishment of the Angolan people.
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