Posted on 09/09/2009 9:28:57 AM PDT by vimto
British diplomats in Khartoum have demanded that the vehicles, computers, office equipment, medical stores and cash be returned so that it can be redistributed.
But Sudanese officials have scoffed at this, saying that neither the British government nor the aid agencies have "the right to control these assets".
In total, Oxfam and Medecins Sans Frontieres' French and Dutch operations have reported that they lost roughly £3.25 million of equipment.
They had also been forced to pay another £5.6 million to Sudanese staff as lay-off payments because of the shutdown.
Sudan has demanded the right to redistribute the materials to its choice of aid agencies working in Darfur.
But there are grave fears that they might end up in the hands of organisations without the necessary experience, meaning millions of pounds of British aid will go to waste.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
But please give more money to help the poor in Africa. The west should feel ashamed that we have it so good while they suffer. It is all due to colonialism, don’t cha know.
The next stop will be global warming money.
Give a man a fish.......
LOL.
It never changes.
Doesn’t matter the turd world country.
When Pakistan had huge earthquakes about five years ago, the Indians gratiously offered to send in significant numbers of helos and crews to help move relief supplies and the wounded and displaced.
Pakis said, “No thanks. Just send the helicopters without the crews.”
WTF?
Huh? You steal the stuff, then demand payment because the stuff is gone?
Say what you want, but the guy has a good taste in his choice of what beer to steal.
A man after the heart of Canadian singer Celine Dione, raking in good old US dollars in Las Vegas. She was on television at the time working herself into a semi-hysteria. Quoth Celine.
Let them have what they want. They should have some of those things.
I think she may have donated big bucks though. In short, things may never seem that bad, when you have a Heineken in your back pocket.
To get back on topic, my countrymen are some of the most generous souls on the planet- save the good old USA. Rhetorical question: Are we all decent thinking caring souls or a bunch of mugs? (laughs).
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