In addition to Sierra Leone's diamonds, he has plundered his country's natural resources, enriching his family and a small circle.
Spending time and resources enriching oneself and one's friends to the detriment of the nation?
We need to recognize that the effects of generations of malnourishment and illness will not be reversed just because the Chinese are buying up the continent's resources, enriching the plump and entitled ruling one per cent.
Mr. Chávez's plans for Venezuela's oil money would seem to answer a complaint about unequal distribution of wealth voiced throughout Latin America, as well as address calls from American officials and international lenders who have encouraged reforms in developing nations where state resources enrich a corrupt and powerful few.
Antonin Artaud began to formulate his Theatre of Cruelty, which would use stage resources enriched by Japanese Noh theatre and the Balinese Theatre (in Paris in 1931), replacing words by spectacle, to expose audiences to the realities of repressive power structures from which they were muffled by habit in their everyday lives.
These plant resources enriched in ALA differed in the mechanism of fatty acid desaturation, signifying their unique metabolic pathways in the process of evolution [ 19, 24, 25].
Why, otherwise, would the country expend vast diplomatic and financial resources on enriching uranium in bomb-hardened facilities?
As people struggle desperately in southern Europe, gas and oil resources are enriching a new generation in Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and even – if proposed exploration occurs this year – Somalia and Somaliland.
As people struggle desperately in southern Europe, gas and oil resources are enriching a new generation in Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and even if proposed exploration occurs this year Somalia and Somaliland.
Rather than Africa being a hapless continent dependent on the rest of the world, it is the exploited continent whose natural resources are enriching a local and global elite at the expense of the vast majority of its citizens, and whose governments can do little about the illegal syphoning of revenue into tax havens.
