Most Africa Govt Don't Want To Be Transparent -Bartels

The Ghanaian private sector development minister says the biggest hitch in implementing the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) is most African governments do not want to be transparent.

Speaking yesterday at the World Economic Forum's African Summit, the minister, Kwamena Bartels, said he could identify only a handful of countries living up to Nepad principles. These included Ghana, Senegal, Egypt, C?te d'Ivoire, Nigeria and SA.

He did not mention Botswana, but it too is widely seen as subscribing to the tenets of Nepad.

Few "African governments have delivered on their commitments," to Nepad, Bartels said. He would not name those nations, but such public criticism is rarely heard from senior African officials.

Ghana was one of the first to join the African peer review mechanism.