Topic: Chad/Cameroon: The pipeline and the issue of sovereignty
Michelle
Moderator
Babbler # 560
posted 24 March 2006 08:23 AM
quote:The Chad-Cameroon pipeline began as the World Bank's model of what an oil extraction project could do for a country's people if proper legislative safeguards were put in place. Two years on, safeguards guaranteeing money for poverty alleviation now and in the future are in jeopardy as Chad asserts its sovereignty to spend the proceeds of its oil when and where it wishes.