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By Tanu Jalloh Sierra Leone has struck a couple of deals with potential investors, craving for the nascent oil industry. Diamonds have failed to raise the money the small West African country needed so badly to grease a cog in the wheels of what was largely a puerile economy. It was at the mercy of the powerful, while democratic rule nurtured its way through a defiant system,
December 14, 2020 The human rights abuses that plagued the Enron Corporation’s Dabhol power plant in India from 1992 to 1998 demonstrate the need for US government agencies to scrutinise such controversial projects more closely, the Human Rights Watch said. In 1999, Human Rights Watch charged in a 166-page report, “The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations,” that Enron subsidiaries paid local law enforcement agencies to suppress opposition to its power plant in Maharashtra. “Enron is now being widely accused of arrogance and lack of transparency, but the p...