Joint Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian venture to see 112-mile pipeline built between Read Sea, Dead Sea. Project meant to explore desalination possibilities, raising Dead Sea declining water levels. Minister Shalom: Project staple of financial peace
The Egyptian government’s engagement in the West Delta project raises many questions regarding the repayment of the World Bank’s loan
The meeting took place during the Inspection Panel’s trip to Sana’a to determine the eligibility of a complaint about Yemeni civil society’s inability to access a translation of a key Bank document.
1.5 years after the Yemen Observatory for Human Rights first requested a translation of the World Bank’s 2008 Development Policy Loan for Yemen, the Bank has finally made this translation available.
State-owned oil company Petroperu said Sunday protests organized by Indians in Peru’s Amazon region were causing fuel shortages in several jungle cities.
Yemeni group files complaint with the World Bank’s Inspection Panel and now change might already be in the air? It has only been slightly over a month since the Yemen Observatory for Human Rights (YOHR) submitted their official complaint to the World Bank’s Inspection Panel but we are already seeing progress with the case. YOHR’s …
Recent reporting on the Pasto Mocoa Highway have included video of the actual highway that is currently one of the most dangerous roads in Colombia, referred to by some as the “Trampoline of Death.” As an IIRSA priority project with funding in preparation by the IDB, a proposed 50 km rerouting of the section between between San Francisco and Mocoa will pass through the 35,00 ha Upper Mocoa Forest Reserve with impacts on indigenous and farmer communities in the affected region. Among other impacts, the highway improvement is expected to increase investment in mining as indicated by the estimated increase in mining related traffic from zero vehicles to 180 vehicles daily.
Yemeni civil society group take their complaint regarding the World Bank’s refusal to translate a key program document, to the Inspection Panel
The World Bank continues to commission feasibility studies for the proposed Red/Dead Sea Canal, but environmental and political issues remain major issues.