The problem with sending money/aid to Africa is that the warlords always intercept it first.
I have long decided that unless one is sponsoring a missionary to Africa it is best not to send any kind of money there. Sorry to sound harsh but I will not send money to fat warlords.
I have long decided that unless one is sponsoring a missionary to Africa it is best not to send any kind of money there. Sorry to sound harsh but I will not send money to fat warlords.
I think you nailed it.
To quote from the inimitable P.J. O'Rourke in his All The Troubles In The World (the chapter on Somalia):
A trip from our compound to Mogadishu's main market required two kids with AK-47s plus a driver and a translator who were usually armed as well. The market was walking distance but you wanted a truck to show your status. That there was a market at all in Mogadishu was testimony to something in the human spirit, though not necessarily something nice, since what was for sale was mostly food that had been donated to Somalia's famine victims. CONTRIBUÉ PAR LES ENFANTS DE FRANCE said the stenciled letters on all the rice sacks. (Every French school child had been urged to bring to class a kilo of rice for Somalia.)
NO cheers, unfortunately.