http://www.bicusa.org/en/Project.26.aspx The latest news on the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project from the Bank Information Center 10 http://www.infodev.org/images/infodev.gif http://www.bicusa.org/en/Project.26.aspx The World Bank’s request amounts to an admission of failure in one of its most controversial and disastrous projects – once touted as a “model” for high-risk projects - after the Chadian government repeatedly used its newfound oil wealth in contravention of its agreements to invest in poverty reduction. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3892.aspx Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:34:20 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3892.aspx As a significant rebel threat to his government appears to recede, Chadian President Idriss Deby has clamped down on political opponents and bypassed controls established by an agreement with the World Bank to redirect oil revenues for military use. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3693.aspx Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:14:58 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3693.aspx Report highlights disrepancies between conclusions of the World Bank and the official project monitors. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3270.aspx Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3270.aspx The World Bank-backed Chad-Cameroon pipeline is once again in the news - this time following the release of a new report which documents the heavy toll that oil development has taken on the local population in southern Chad. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3261.aspx Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3261.aspx The controversial Chad-Cameroon pipeline is again in the news after an off-shore oil spill occurred near the town of Kribi in coastal Cameroon. Meanwhile in southern Chad, where ExxonMobil and its consortium partners extract nearly 200,000 barrels of “black gold” per day, the security situation and living conditions are deteriorating. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3148.aspx Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:20:16 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3148.aspx The Center for Environment and Development (CED), a Cameroon-based organization that has been active in monitoring the impacts of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project, has issued a press release on the incident. CED notes, among other things, a concern regarding the poor communication and long delay in alerting the public and local authorities about the spill. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3108.aspx Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:44:37 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3108.aspx The Government of Chad and the World Bank signed a memorandum of understanding on July 14th regarding the use of the country's oil revenues. While the agreement has been heralded as a resolution to the protracted dispute between the two parties, some civil society observers remain skeptical that the government of Chad has any more will or capacity today to deliver on promises to use oil money for the poor than it did when the World Bank suspended lending to Chad in January of this year. The MOU, which will be in effect through 2007, leaves many questions unanswered and key details about oversight of spending and management of windfalls undefined. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2892.aspx Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:50:46 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2892.aspx On April 27th, the World Bank announced that it had reached an interim agreement with the Government of Chad to resume lending and unfreeze bank accounts containing the country's oil revenues. The accounts had been blocked since January of this year, when the Bank suspended lending to the country following the government's decision to rewrite the revenue management law and use oil money for security spending. <ul><li class="DocHTM"> <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:20903775~menuPK:258657~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258644,00.html"> World Bank press release on interim agreement </a></li></ul> http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2750.aspx Wed, 03 May 2006 16:40:14 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2750.aspx The recent collapse of the World Bank’s “model” petroleum development project in Chad underscores the vulnerability of the poor as the primary bearers of risk and highlights the pitfalls of promoting extractive industries in countries lacking political stability, history of respect for human rights, or functioning mechanisms of public accountability. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2668.aspx Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:29:49 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2668.aspx Following the announcement by Chadian authorities that there would be revisions to the Petroleum Revenue Management Law 001, the centerpiece of the Bank's experiment in converting petrodollars to poverty reduction, the World Bank suspended all loans to Chad. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2642.aspx Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:39:17 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2642.aspx In what some have described as Wolfowitz's first real test in his new position, the President announced the suspension of all World Bank loans to Chad on Friday. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2569.aspx Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:33:01 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2569.aspx Wolfowitz comments on Chad's proposed amendments to the Petroleum Revenue Management Law http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2519.aspx Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:04:49 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2519.aspx Bank Information Center, Oxfam America, Intermon (Oxfam Spain), Environmental Defense and Amis de la Terre (Friends of the Earth-France) have issued a statement concerning the current crisis in Chad over the government's proposal to fundamentally alter the petroleum revenue management law. The fate of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project, a flagship investment for the Bank in the extractive industries and in Africa, has implications not only for the people of Chad, but for the Bank's future involvement in the sector. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2490.aspx Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:00:49 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2490.aspx The government of Chad has announced its intention to amend the Petroleum Revenue Management Law—the much-vaunted centerpiece of the World Bank’s “model” Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project—in order to increase revenues available for discretionary spending today. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2450.aspx Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:07:50 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.2450.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1925.aspx Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:58:17 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1925.aspx On November 30, 2004, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a $25 million Institutional Reform Support Credit for Chad. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1785.aspx Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:29:27 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1785.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1784.aspx Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:17:18 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1784.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1648.aspx Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:47:55 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1648.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1625.aspx Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:49:42 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1625.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1541.aspx Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:05:14 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1541.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1626.aspx Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:01:28 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1626.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1473.aspx Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:27:41 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1473.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1406.aspx Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:12:19 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1406.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1401.aspx Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:59:27 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1401.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1364.aspx Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:12:48 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1364.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1362.aspx Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:32:23 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1362.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1286.aspx Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:30:35 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.1286.aspx Throughout October 2003, the network of organizations active around the oil sector in Chad ran a public campaign to call attention to oustanding and emerging problems associated with this project. Overviews of the month's events and press releases are available in French. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.576.aspx Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:33:37 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.576.aspx Less than two weeks after the official inauguration of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline, the Minister of Public Security ordered the independent radio station, FM Liberte, to close indefinitely. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.574.aspx Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:59:49 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.574.aspx Groups fear imminent oil revenues will strengthen the current regime and exacerbate current insecurity, lack of resources, and human rights violations. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.72.aspx Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:20:48 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.72.aspx