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Scent of oil may have brought corruption to a tiny African country |
| Home | (IHT) - A decade ago, geologists found signs that one of Africa's least-known countries, the tiny island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, might hold a king's ransom in oil. The first drop of oil has yet to be produced. But these days, little São Tomé may have attracted ample supplies of something else, U.S. government investigations suggest: oil-related corruption. All of this might not seem unusual in Africa, where oil and corruption often go hand in hand. However, São Tomé, a former Portuguese colony that lies off the coast of Nigeria, was supposed to be different. |