Cameroon: With 40,000 Signatures in Hand, Africans Come to World Bank to Save Their Last Forests

Posted to the web 6 October 2008 Cameroonian Students Ask World Bank Not to Repeat Mistakes in Congo What: As the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group (Bank) gather in Washington for their annual meeting, a group of African students are traveling across the ocean to call upon the bank ministers to stop forest destruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The students are arriving with 40,000 signatures asking the World Bank to not repeat the mistakes of their "Forest Reform" in Central Africa, which allowed the large scale expansion of industrial logging into intact rainforests. The student activists are available to the media to discuss their work and how World Bank policies affect their lives. (See student bios below) Why: The Congo Basin Forest is the second largest... [read full story]