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# In other words
It's Africa.
Actually Ethiopia was doing quite well and prospering until a few years ago when drought hit again.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 20:24, archived)
# Diverting the majority of its food aid wealth
( including an annual no strings gift of £30M from the UK ) to fund border wars with Eritrea did not help matters much.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 20:27, archived)
# I am not defending what they do
but your accusation could apply to most countries allocating vast sums of money to "defence".
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 20:31, archived)
# I don't actually mind what they do with their own
GDP. I just have a bee in my bonnet about international aid and the fact that some countries treat it in the same manner as chavs here on the dole. It's the 'why work?' syndrome. Take the easy money. You'd think I'd be more tolerant of charity being as her indoors is heavily involved. Still. You know me ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 20:36, archived)