Is Aid Good for Africa?
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While I am by no means an expert on Somalia, I suspect that the cold war militarization of the Horn of Africa, wars with Ethiopia, debt burden and years of drought and famine probably contributed greatly to the collapse of the Somali state. Corruption, while aggrevated by infusions of unmonitored cash from aid agencies to the Somali government, cannot be blamed upon foreigners. In the end, the problem of corruption in any country is a domestic matter. No one can be the keeper of a man’s conscience but that man himself.
Posted by Chesire11, on April 7th, 2009 at 6:41 pm EDT
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