Contributions from the Column Facts and trends Reconstruction in Iraq: windfalls from war Trade alone does not deliver development Concern over independence of EU humanitarian aid Debt relief for Iraq? UN adopts convention to fight corruption Security situation in Afghanistan fragile German-Indonesian cooperation Bribery in Nigeria’s oil business Interview with Hans-Joachim Preuss: “The Kunduz operation will not bring more security” 12/2003   Bribery in Nigeria’s oil business is to become history soon. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo announced at a Transparency International meeting in Berlin at the beginning of November that Nigeria would support the ‘Publish What You Pay’ initiative launched last year by George Soros. This demands that all payments in the oil business be disclosed. Accordingly, oil companies must publish the sums they have paid to the Nigerian government, which in turn must in future report its income from them. The aim is to put a stop to illegal payments. Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, was repeatedly rated as one of the most corrupt countries in the world in the past years. (ell)