You’ve written a wonderful post that updates an important issue. According to Jubilee USA,an “increasing number” of lawsuits are brought by Vulture Funds in the courts of the debtor countries themselves, where “weaker legal systems are easily overwhelmed by the level of technical detail involved in adjudication of these cases.”

Hopefully the AfDB’s new initiative will help African countries combat the Vulture Funds, which siphon huge sums of money away from the citizens of impoverished nations that desperately need the funding for social services like health care, education, public transportation etc.

I invite to take a look at a recent post on our blog, “Just Africa,” concerning Vulture Funds, as well as the reintroduction of the “Stop VULTURE Funds” Act (H.R. 2932) in the House of Representatives at: http://tiny.cc/uJaOI

And, for additional information on where Vulture Funds are prowling, you can check out an interactive map showing which countries are being affected: http://tinyurl.com/lyz7w7

I´ve initiated a Twitter charity project: It started 15th of June 2009. Now i am ‘collecting’ as much Followers as i can until December the 31th, 2009. If i reach the goal of 999.999 Followers until that date, i will handover my account to a humanitarian organization. > My Followers (and someone else, too) can vote for ‘their’ organization on a special voting page i´ve built.

The Idea to my project popped up, when i saw the Follower counter of the UNICEF Twitter page. It was low as 1,497 Followers. That´s not enough, so i decided to start my project.

If someone of You is interested in spending 30 seconds of time to follow and support my project: Here comes the contact information:

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/999999Followers
Voting page: http://999999Followers.broken.monitor.com

Thank You. Chris