Movie Review | 'Bamako': World Bank in the Docket, Charged With Africaâs Woes
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âBamakoâ is a work of cool intelligence and profound anger, a long, dense, argument that is also a haunting visual poem.
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Ousmane SembÃ¨ne, by consensus the father of African cinema, pointed an angry, often satirical finger at the failures and excesses of modern African governments.
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âManda Balaâ (âSend a Bulletâ), a flashy documentary about corruption, injustice and frog farming in Brazil, is a weird hybrid of political exposÃ© and sensationalistic fluff.
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James L. Brooks's new movie treats the subjects of class division, cultural misunderstanding and marital discord with astonishing smugness and dishonesty.
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Debt campaigners attending this weekâs annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have expressed disappointment and outrage over the failure of the
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An anti-corruption unit at the World Bank heavily promoted by ousted president Paul D. Wolfowitz needs to be overhauled to mend tense relations with the rest of the bank's staff, according to a report released yesterday by a high-level outside review panel.
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Pamela Bone witnesses Africa&#39;s latest humanitarian crisis, the flight of refugees from Sudan to Chad. On the bank of the wadi, which two weeks ago was full of fast-flowing water but is now only a few muddy
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DVD copies of the movie âRambo,â starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone, below, are much in demand in Myanmar but very had to find, Agence France-Presse reported. That is because the police there have banned the film, in which Mr. Stallone portrays a Vietnam War veteran battling soldiers of the military junta that rules the country. âPolice have warned me I could go to jail for up to seven years if I sell the latest Rambo film,â said a DVD vendor who declined to be identified. Another seller said that at least 20 customers asked for it every day. One democracy advocate, who declined to say how he obtained a copy, said, âI watched the movie at home with my family and gave it to my friends because I wanted them to see it.â.
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Developing countries have criticised the IMF and World Bank for failing to give more decision-making power to smaller nations. Ministers from the Group of 24 (G24) developing countries made their statement
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âNankingâ is a swift, incisive documentary about one of the lesser-known horrors of the 20th century.
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S. African Government Condemns Accusations That It Is Being Used As Springboard for Haiti&#39;s Aristide. A boy passes a car that says &quot;Aristide King&quot; in the pro-Aristide slum of Bel-Air in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004.
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A documentary critical of South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, will finally be shown to the public today more than a year after it was made and after it was twice pulled from the state broadcaster amid accusations of political censorship.
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A siege mentality prevails at a World Bank unit that investigates allegations of misconduct and corruption in bank-financed projects, an independent panel says. It recommends the group reach out to other departments and outside advisers to deal with its problems.
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NAIROBI Wangari Maathai has been clubbed in the head by riot policemen. She has been denounced as a subversive. Her efforts for women&#39;s rights in a country where men run the show have long been considered quixotic at best.
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One of the biggest reasons that very poor countries can&#39;t provide decent education and health care is that they are stuck in a cycle of debt owed to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and regional development banks, much of it dating to the
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The events recounted in the World War II drama âMiriamâ are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation.
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Fighting Africa's poverty and the spread of Aids top the agenda at the Davos World Economic Forum.