[detsaoT]

Why with all this aid do conditions remain the same?

No matter how much money you pour into corrupt regimes, they are still nothing more than corrupt regimes. This is the same reason that "free" trade with Cuba will do no good for the Cubans - All of the money made from such "trade" (and I still use the term loosely) ends up in Fidel's hands.

(Incidentally, were you aware that the Soviet Union spent billions of dollars, and sent thousands of people to the African continent to promote the Soviet version of freedom? Most certainly, the "help" they offered did nothing of any value to the average African citizen...)

Hope this clears things up.

:) ttt

[Angelique]

To paraphrase, all governments are corrupt in Africa. It does sound like communism, although why did the then Soviet Union fail?

[Sam Cree]

"No matter how much money you pour into corrupt regimes, they are still nothing more than corrupt regimes"

And no matter how much money you give the poor, they're still poor after they spend it.

In fact, the history of the American welfare state demonstrates that doing this increases poverty, as it amounts to paying people to be poor. Pouing money into corrupt regimes amounts to paying them to be corrupt