Maurice Carney on the western corporate backing of Joseph Kabila and the corporate pillaging of the Congolese people's resources.

The IMF/World Bank play a key role in softening up local governments and pave the way for corporate takeovers of African countries.

VOA's Paul Ndiho reports on the controversy over the World Bank funds for projects in South Sudan.

In this clip, Graham touches on the role of the UN, the Bretton Woods Institutions of the World Bank/IMF's relation to the UN's ECOSOC, and SOCIALWATCH. He explains how it raises the relevance of international negotiation for domestic intervention.

Who is marching outside the G20 in the streets in Pittsburgh?

Over the past few months there has been a lot of discussion about increased support to African nations. The likes of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and African Development Bank are all involved in talks. To look at some of the issues regarding this response to the financial crisis, we cross now to our London studio to speak with Alex Sienaert, Economist with Standard Chartered.

Brilliant (if manic) campaign video linking finance company bailouts with debts claimed from African, Asian, Latin American countries.

How is it that an institution with an explicit mandate to promote development in the global South is financing companies who purposefully weasel out of paying revenues to the world's poorest governments, while extracting their natural resources and disrupting the livelihoods of local communities?

How does the mining sector work in Africa? Our friends at Counter Balance (http://counterbalance-eib.org) have produced another cartoon in their series on the EIB in the Global South, this time about the impacts of resource extraction in developing countries.

On Saturday 28th March 2009, more than 35,000 supporters from charities, trade unions, development organisations and faith-based groups braved the elements and took to the streets of London to deliver a message to the G20 leaders ahead of their summit on 2nd April: Put People First!

World Vision supporters took part in the day. This is what they had to say...

Bob Geldof speaks his mind about Africa needing representation in any new financial architecture