Re, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth.
Millions of Ethiopian famine aid used to buy weapons
Millions of pounds of Western aid money intended to buy food for starving Ethiopians during the country's 1984 famine were instead used by rebels to buy weapons, an investigation has found.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...Ethiopian-famine-aid-used-to-buy-weapons.html
WikiLeaks cables: millions in overseas aid to Africa was embezzled
The true scale of the theft of overseas aid money by corrupt foreign regimes is disclosed in leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph. Tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money has been pocketed by their ministers and officials, much of it used to buy luxury goods.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...-in-overseas-aid-to-Africa-was-embezzled.html
UK gives £19million aid to South Africa - its president spends £17.5million on his palace
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ica--president-spends-17-5million-palace.html
South Sudan officials have stolen $4 billion: president
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudanese officials have “stolen” an estimated $4 billion of public money and should return it to salvage the young nation’s reputation and help lift its people out of poverty, the president said in a letter seen on Monday
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southsudan-corruption-idUSBRE8530QI20120604
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