The price of corruption in Africa

Africa’s bleak situation has never looked bleaker: A recent United Nations report says that about 65 percent of Africans, or about 307 million, live on less than $1 per day — double the number of Africans who lived in extreme poverty 30 years ago. And some 6 million Africans die each year from preventable causes such as malnutrition and malaria.
Leading up to this week’s Group of Eight summit, British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for rich industrialized nations to double aid to Africa and cancel $40 billion in debt.
Smartly targeted aid could do much to alleviate the continent’s staggering human needs.
But money alone can’t solve Africa’s problems.
Many aid experts and Africans themselves say the money won’t make a real difference unless G-8 nations and African leaders also confront the widespread government corruption in nations such as Zimbabwe.
Posted by Randy Scholfield

3 Comments

  1. Joe
    Posted July 7, 2005 at 11:27 am | Permalink

    Does this mean you are OK with US meddling in the affairs of other countries? Whenever we do that the poor fools try to kill us. Please, one war at a time.

  2. Liuded Liuser
    Posted June 4, 2006 at 4:45 pm | Permalink

    Hes probably getting fucked in the ass

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