At the end of the PWYP African regional meeting, which took place at Limbe on March 2007, a regional action plan was approved by the PWYP coalitions throughout Africa.

In order to further develop, improve and implement some sections of the action plan, the members of the PWYP campaign in Africa agreed to meet in Libreville, Gabon, from 27 to 29 June 2007 after an EITI training organized by the World Bank mostly for French-speaking countries in Africa.

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The International Publish What You Pay Coalition (PWYP)[1] and its partner organizations in São Tomé and Principe and Nigeria are extremely concerned about serious flaws revealed by a report into the 2005 bidding round for oil blocks in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ).

On 12/07/07, Sao Tomean civil society welcomed the publication of news reporting that the São Tomean government was about to adhere to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).

The most important international initiative aimed at shedding light on the oil industry’s often murky finances faces a crucial test next month when several African countries may be forced to leave due to their low governance standards.

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Benin City – The Publish What You Pay campaign Nigeria (PWYP-Nigeria)[1] endorses the nine-point Abuja joint declaration signed by the governments of Nigeria and Sao Tome e Principe to implement transparency and good governance in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ). The PWYP-Nigeria coalition particularly welcomes the commitment to quarterly and annual publication of payments made by individual oil companies to the Joint Development Authority (JDA).

London/Berlin – A majority of leading oil and gas companies are far from transparent when it comes to the payments they make to resource-rich countries, leaving the door open to corruption and hampering efforts to fight poverty, according to a report published today by Transparency International (TI).

Governments and companies signed up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) must now deliver concrete results towards making revenues and payments from oil, gas and mining transparent and accountable, said the global civil society coalition Publish What You Pay (PWYP). Seven resource-rich countries were approved as EITI candidates by the EITI Board in Accra, Ghana on Friday 22 February, bringing the total number of EITI candidate countries to 22.