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Mozambique: Secret security debts devastate economy
Africa Confidential ^ | 13TH MAY 2016 | Nicholas Norbrook

Posted on 05/14/2016 11:57:09 AM PDT by ameribbean expat

It is clear that the secret lending was undertaken by the country's state security and intelligence services, and Africa Confidential here reveals yet more detail of the astonishing malfeasance at the heart of the state and who was responsible. The International Monetary Fund leads an international financial community aghast at the enormity of the deceptions of leaders of the governing Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) and is still pondering its response. It is sure to be severe and donors are already suspending budget support funds and grants.

(Excerpt) Read more at africa-confidential.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; mozambique
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1 posted on 05/14/2016 11:57:09 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Who loans money to these peeps?

2 posted on 05/14/2016 12:02:19 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Does the IMF ever get any money back, from the “loans” it makes to Third World Kleptocrats?


3 posted on 05/14/2016 12:03:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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“Does the IMF ever get any money back, from the “loans” it makes to Third World Kleptocrats?”

Yes, it takes over the resources of the debtor country.


4 posted on 05/14/2016 12:12:10 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: ameribbean expat

Don’t loan money to communist terrorists if you want to see it again.


5 posted on 05/14/2016 12:14:54 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Paladin2

people who own the banks, peoplE who take cuts of money for arranging loans from the banks, people who make a living pimping for sympathy from boig donors and financiers to keep funding the merry go round, people who own the country’s railways, the ports, and all the commercial exports they can drain and ship out of the country

a few dozen or a few hundred people enjoy fabulous wealth by selling the country piece by piece, inhabitant by inhabitant

colonialism never ended here, it just got a new name and new masters


6 posted on 05/14/2016 12:16:13 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: PAR35
Don’t loan money to communist terrorists if you want to see it again.

or relatives.

7 posted on 05/14/2016 12:16:34 PM PDT by upsdriver (I support Sarah Palin.)
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To: Paladin2

You do. Ever heard of the Ex-Im Bank?


8 posted on 05/14/2016 12:24:39 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.)
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To: Paladin2

Used, entry level Hawker biz jet- which AFAIK based on the diagram is the only US exposure- starts around $2m.


9 posted on 05/14/2016 12:32:37 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Add this to the drought, and worse things are going to happen there.


10 posted on 05/14/2016 1:25:03 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t even blame the people of these Third World dumps when they depose their dictators and don’t want to pay the debts; the money borrowed was not used for them (only in their names) and quickly stolen.

If they ruin their creditworthiness, it is an opportunity for them to grow up and get away from the debt servitude model employed (with horrible consequences) by the West...


11 posted on 05/14/2016 5:36:12 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ameribbean expat

Cultural tendencies?

sarcasm ;p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6J1Skptbs


12 posted on 05/15/2016 5:10:30 AM PDT by keving (We get the government we vote elect.)
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The UN trying to get the money back?

https://youtu.be/FRZN7IzvCVs

Sarcasm ;p


13 posted on 05/15/2016 5:23:40 AM PDT by keving (We get the government we vote elect.)
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To: keving

It’s okay. Bono will just hold a U2 concert for them. /s.


14 posted on 05/15/2016 7:15:42 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.)
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