"We are the world", US Aide for Africa, 一首非常感人的歌曲，年我也了一卷CBS 出的卡，可是後上看到後的追，大量的食物在腐，有多了洋酒和步.... 的工要官才得以把物送到民手中。些政治人物和人的良心到底在哪呢？
在全世界最的地，有著全世界最人的。不是社，也是文化上的。些被污走的，其中大多是世界各的捐款呢！怪乎辛巴威的首席反污官Mark Chona 要那些富的大使，保持沉默，你的影力。
全球每年有超一兆美金的是用的，一兆美元已超出我的理解了。上查了 一下台Exports (2007) $246.7 billion f.o.b., 所以是超台四年的出口值。
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是昨天站新的。真是巧，同一天台也有政治人物告起其污的察官新。然新是今天才到的，因差的，告察官一新都是同一日期。
一大的社是下的：「整司法察系都底思考：到底生了什事，民司法改革望之如此之殷，求之而不可得？」司法制度永法完善，所以需要人衡。正女神然是著眼，持天秤的和的手，都是受到心和的指的。我不相信她是盲目的，手中的天秤告她如何使用。
但一切只是了追求正？又何不是一活生生的力展呢？要些人罩子放亮？然我相信他只是要一正，但他手下又有多少人揣摩上意，而去作案件呢？用他自己的言，又其立常改，我又怎去相信呢？
「和大怨，必有怨，安可以善？是以人左契而不於人。有德司契，德司。天道，常善人。」天下之大，司契者寡，而司者。
南非 a new crime unit with less statutory protection from political interference was stripped of the authority to both investigate and prosecute crimes.可是有立法保障又如何？我的察不就是有立法保障！不是媒攻，散言，直官不是不予力。不是非黑白，只有同伐，或就是政治的本，而不是甚「管理人之事。」
大道，有仁。智慧出，有大。六不和有孝慈。家昏有忠臣。
扯了！
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每每到一些先家的，就得我「先」或「已」好。可能是更基本－－「我的家」。
年前小女：「什卡通的人是要拯救地球？」想然耳，那是美的自以是。不盱衡，美人的真大！怪他是造出拯救地球的英雄人物。就算是了美自身利益，至少他心地球遭逢的劫。就如非洲反力消退，美的媒如此的追，怪牛仔很忙。
Battle to Halt Graft Scourge in Africa Ebbs
Mariella Furrer for The New York Times
Above, a hand-painted anticorruption sign in Lusaka, Zambia. Agencies investigating wrongdoing by powerful politicians have been undermined or disbanded and their leaders have been dismissed, threatened with death and driven into exile.
By CELIA W. DUGGER
Published: June 9, 2009
LUSAKA, Zambia The fight against corruption in Africa’s most pivotal nations is faltering as public agencies investigating wrongdoing by powerful politicians have been undermined or disbanded and officials leading the charge have been dismissed, subjected to death threats and driven into exile.
“We are witnessing an era of major backtracking on the anticorruption drive,” said Daniel Kaufmann, an authority on corruption who works at the Brookings Institution. “And one of the most poignant illustrations is the fate of the few anticorruption commissions that have had courageous leadership. They’re either embattled or dead.”
backtrack vi. 1. 沿原路返回 2. 撒手不管(置身事外) 3. 收回前言;出反
poignant adj. 尖的;烈的;深刻的;深深打人心的;辛辣的;痛快的;(味)烈的,辣的,刺激舌[鼻子]的 Experts, prosecutors and watchdog groups say they fear that
major setbacks to anticorruption efforts in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya are weakening the resolve to root out graft, a stubborn scourge that saps money needed to combat poverty and disease in the world’s poorest region. And in
Zambia, a change of leadership has stoked fears that the country’s zealous prosecution of corruption is ebbing.
scourge n. 1. (用作刑具的)鞭子 2. 的工具; 3. 天;苦的根源;
vt. 1. 鞭打,鞭笞 2. ;斥 3. 使痛苦;折磨
sap vt., vi 1. 在…下挖坑道,挖坑道逼近(方地) 2. (在…下面)挖掘使倒塌
3. 逐削弱[害],侵
n. 暗中的破,逐的侵[]
stoke vt, vi 1. (子等)添加燃料,司() 2. (火);使大吃; 3. 司;火,添燃料ebb
&nbp; vi, n. 1. 落潮,退潮 2. 退,衰退期
3. 落潮;(勇、活力、威等)衰退,衰弱,消失;(身世等)衰落,衰亡The perils of challenging deeply rooted patterns of corruption have been brought home recently with the suspicious deaths of two anticorruption campaigners. Ernest Manirumva, who worked with a nonprofit group, Olucome, investigating high-level corruption in Burundi, was stabbed to death in the early morning hours of April 9. A bloodstained folder lay empty on his bed. Documents and a computer flash drive were missing, said the president of Olucome, Gabriel Rufyiri.
And in the Congo Republic, Bruno Jacquet Ossebi, a journalist who had announced he was joining a lawsuit brought by Transparency International to reclaim the ill-gotten wealth of his country’s president, died of injuries from a fire that raced through his home in the early hours of Jan. 21.
The broader anxieties about Africa’s resolve to combat corruption have emerged from troubled efforts in several countries.
In
oil-rich Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, where watchdog groups say
efforts to combat corruption are backsliding, Nuhu Ribadu, who built a well-trained staff of investigators at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said he fled his homeland into self-imposed exile in England in December. Officials had sent Mr. Ribadu away to a training course a year earlier, soon after his agency charged a wealthy, politically connected former governor with trying to bribe officials on his staff with huge sacks stuffed with $15 million in $100 bills. Mr. Ribadu, who was dismissed from the police force last year, said he had received death threats and was fired upon in September by assailants.
fled, pt and p.p. of fleeassailant n. 攻者,者,施暴者, 利的者
adj. [古] 攻的,的 assail vt.“If you fight corruption, it fights you back,” he said.
In
South Africa, home to the region’s biggest economy, a new crime unit with less statutory protection from political interference was stripped of the authority to both investigate and prosecute crimes. It will take over from the Scorpions, the prosecuting authority’s elite investigating unit that had achieved high conviction rates and built potent corruption cases against Jacob Zuma, who became president of South Africa in April, and Jackie Selebi, the national police commissioner and an ally of former President Thabo Mbeki. The Scorpions were abolished last year and the country’s chief prosecutor, Vusi Pikoli, who had pushed forward with both cases, was fired.
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Even people of good will would be slow to take on people in high places again because history will have told them it comes at a high cost,” said Wim Trengrove, a private lawyer who assisted the state with the prosecution of Mr. Zuma.
And in
Kenya, the economic anchor of east Africa, scandals have continued to flourish and anticorruption prosecutions have languished since John Githongo, who was the country’s anticorruption chief, sought safety in self-imposed exile in England in 2005. Aaron Ringera, who apparently advised Mr. Githongo in taped conversations in 2005 not to push for prosecutions of President Mwai Kibaki’s ministers, is the current anticorruption chief. Mr. Ringera said in an e-mail message that Mr. Githongo had twisted advice he offered him “in his own best interests.” In an interview, he said he had recommended prosecuting eight ministers, but had been blocked by either the courts or the attorney general.
The search is on for more effective ways to tackle corruption, including intensified legal efforts to prosecute multinational corporations that pay the bribes and reclaim loot that African political elites have stashed abroad.
stash vt. ,vi. [口] (金、重物品等)收藏起,藏匿,藏,存放起
n. 1. [美口] 藏匿/ 藏匿物 2. [美俚] 自己用的麻醉毒品 Transparency International’s suit seeks to force the French justice system to investigate how the leaders of Gabon, the Congo Republic and Equatorial Guinea and their families acquired tens of millions of dollars in assets there. Still others say rich countries and international organizations that provide billions of dollars in aid to African countries each year must more vigorously use their leverage to make sure aid does not fuel corruption.
Based on his finding that
more than $1 trillion a year is paid in bribery globally, Mr. Kaufmann, formerly director of global programs at the World Bank Institute, estimates there are tens of billions of dollars of corrupt transactions each year in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mr. Githongo, who failed in trying to fight corruption from the inside, has returned to Nairobi to start a nonprofit group to mobilize rural people to press politicians to clean up a rotten system.
“Going after big fish hasn’t worked,” he said. “The fish will not fry themselves.”
Zambia recently won rare convictions against former military commanders and Regina Chiluba, the wife of its former president, on corruption charges. Frederick Chiluba, president from 1991 to 2001, will himself face a verdict in July on corruption charges. His sumptuous wardrobe Lanvin suits, silk pajamas and handmade Italian shoes of snakeskin, satin and ostrich became an emblem of greed in one of the world’s poorest countries.
Mariella Furrer for The New York Times
The handmade Italian shoes of Frederick Chiluba, the former president of Zambia, became an emblem of greed.But anticorruption leaders say they sense less commitment to tackle corruption since the election of President Rupiah Banda. “I’m inside,” said Maxwell Nkole, who leads a task force set up to investigate the Chiluba-era abuses. “The tempo, the intensity to tackle corruption is dropping.”
The Banda administration vigorously denies that charge, and says it will prosecute officials who stole $2 million from the Ministry of Health. At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from the United States’ Millennium Challenge Corporation that Zambia is eligible for. On a recent afternoon, ambassadors from rich nations, the United States and Britain among them, mingled at a party on the lawn of Mark Chona, the first chief of the Zambian anticorruption task force. In welcoming them, he issued a sharp warning.
“Your money is being stolen,” he said. “Don’t sit silent. You don’t know how much influence you have.”
A version of this article appeared in print on June 10, 2009, on page A1 of the New York edition.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/world/africa/10zambia.html?ref=world
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