US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) allegedly sacked an internal analyst in August last year for raising concerns over financing of a $100 million project to build and run a toll road and bridge in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, which would have adverse effects on local communities.
Washington DC-based investigative firm Pogo (Project on Government Oversight) says that an analyst from the little-known US agency raised concerns that the project risked displacing nearly 10,000 people or more from DRC villages thereby violating DFC’s policy that “categorically” prohibits it from funding projects displacing 5,000 or more people.
