The British people should stop their government from funding the dictators in Addis Ababa who are jailing , torturing and killing innocent poor Ethiopians , particularly the Oromo people. The tax payers' hard-earned pound must be used properly . #Oromo #Oromia

This foreign aid mismanagement example seen here is not isolated. The foreign
aid operations are riddled with local control, mismanagement, corruption and
maladministration. The problem goes beyond beyond Ethiopia, which is just a
symptom of the whole ailment.

An official watchdog's verdict on aid spending, which Prime Minister David
Cameron has strongly ring-fenced, highlighted many issues and problems.
The problem is mostly endemic in the countries that receive the aid and the officials who distribute and mange them locally. There the system is riddled
with bribery and corruption.

Britain spends 0.7 percent of its income on foreign aid. But, DfID received what
was described as amber-red rating in overseeing these trends. But, of course,
the watchdog's verdict reports nothing new for a problem festering over a
long period. The aid, in some cases, ignore those it's supposed to reach:
Poor, needy, deprived folks.

The basic conclusion is that huge amounts of UK money is being wasted,
because DfID is either funding corrupt programs directly or not doing enough
to tackle the culture of bribery in many countries, according Daniel Martin,
writing in the Daily Mail. But, this looks like a tall order. This foreign aid
challenge has been there for a long time. It goes beyond Ethiopia.

Part of the huge problem is a foreign culture that uses bribery to advance
any undertakiing. Government officials are usually embedded into the whole
system. It's a persistent and endemic malaise in a system where officials use
kick-back intakes to augment poor wage structures. The challenge is to
push for transparency and accountability for those who expect to get more.
This will incentivize more generosity.
Igonikon Jack, USA

More plagiarism from Jack.

Lifting chunks word for word.

Here's the REAL journalist's article that Jack has leeched off:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...

Note how Jack the thief has stolen the words but does not properly acknowledge the source. He tries to fool readers into believing he has made a genuine contribution whereas what he has really done is repeat somebody else's work and claimed it as his own.

What a creep he is.

since Jack Strop seems to have a penchant for the DM recently perhaps they should be informed of his activities so that they can take any action they deem necessary.

The Jackaboon will just move on to the next "I'm feeling lucky" on google.

It has no shame.

Dear Telegraph,
Could you or any one here explain how Ethiopian rulers illicitly tranferred $16.5 billions to foreign banks in a decade beginning 2001? [Please check Global Financial Integrity Report 2011]. I know you could follow the money trail and report where the money is. Some of it in Dubai. Some in the UK. Some in Asian banks. We know how European banks reeled under the 2008 economic crash/corruption. Some of them are regaining their footing by playing safe haven for aid robbers. And by signing non-disclosure agreements and by getting dirt cheap dealing in mining and agri businesses. And by paying their PR outfits to silence voices in opposition of human and environmental abuses and in the process supporting "terror" laws that routinely are used to keep incumbents in power. The Telegraph did a terrific job of reporting; the question now is, Is it willing to take the next step of outing criminal activities of a sitting government?

Remember Ethiopian rulers are not idiots. They bribe foreign influences and threaten/torture citizens. An American PR group [DL Piper receives $50,000 per month to paint a stable, growth-oriented, and peace-making Ethiopia; Ethiopia as "key ally", etc. Ethiopian rulers know when and how to act. In 2006 when George Bush was facing severe voter reprisal in mid-term elections for his blunders in Iraq, Ethiopian rulers came to his aid by invading Somalia to stop Al Shabab which was no threat to Ethiopia. The late-PM Meles later publicly stated it was a "political miscalculation" though his actions provided millions in US aid [as well as conflagrated the conflict]. And then Sudan broke into two; Ethiopian rulers were head over heels to provide several thousand peace-keeping soldiers that US/UK will not or could not send [of course for $1200 per soldier per month; at about $50 per soldier per moth rate]. And Ebola comes along; before the US/UK even ask for volunteers Ethiopian rulers have quickly read their intentions and volunteered 200 nurses [in a country where health professionals are leaving the country in droves] and a $500,000 financial support; way to make a hefty return on that investment. And continue to torture and jail citizens for wanting to exercise their constitutional rights. And the US/UK looking the other way.

Foreign aid is definitely going into the wrong hands. It certainly does not reach the majority of people it is supposed to help, mostly being syphoned off by the ruling elite in many of the countries receiving it. In another report today, the government is halting most of the aid it gives to Ethiopia. They should halt all of it and not pay one penny more unless there is some kind of natural disaster. Our government must also stop foreign aid completely to anyone, and give it only on a case by case basis. While it is laudable to want to help people, we need to look after those in need here first. We cannot afford a foreign aid budget, certainly not on the scale of the current one. It makes no sense whatsoever to borrow money in order to throw it away in such a profligate fashion.

Agree. We shouldn't be parting with our hard-earned cash either to UNRWA in Gaza, given its distinctly suss record of alliances such as http://tinyurl.com/kcmvql6

No, charity should begin at home.

Foreign Aid does for people abroad what the Welfare System here at home - when it is overblown and too elaborate - does for people in our land.

It turns a lot of human beings into Chronic Dependency Cases, who otherwise might go in for lives of striving and human dignity.

If (a) we had sealed borders and were not known to accept, pretty well permanently, anyone who actually gets here; and (b) there were no foreign aid, then the inhabitants of all the Third World states would realise that it was up to them to purge THEIR countries of corruption, dishonesty, bad government, and so start to acquire the food and other means they need to stay alive, to flourish and prosper. Cf Rob Crilly's argument about the real cause of foreign aid failure, in this very issue of this newspaper: -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

We can't make (say) most Africans upright and honest. Only THEY can rectify the problem of their lands' endemic dishonesty; just as, if we tried the bankers for false accounting (= Fraud) and sent to prison with long sentences all those found guilty, suddenly British banking would become very cautious and honest for decades.

British aid should in the first place be spent on the British. Any remaining money should be spent on contraception in the countries whose agriculture cannot support the population.

Hello Editors of Telegraph
You claimed - I quote: -
"Our aid does not go to Ethiopia’s security forces, of course, nor to the secret police who create such fear".

I have two questions.
1/Does not Britain assist Ethiopian police forces? I think she does.
2/ Who are the "secret police" or where do they operate?

All the aid we need is a new Airline service called ... 'UK Deportations Ltd' which provides a free one way ticket home for those who have no right or need to be here as together with a lunch box and £100 dollars in cash and a photo of the Queen ... as we are full up and the Aid is needed here in the UK

32% increase whilst we are indebted and cutting services to people here? A disgrace, an utter disgrace and nobody should vote Conservative or Lib Dem as a consequence. Or Labour, of course who would increase it still more.

Our extravagant and unaffordable foreign aid program, which is making significant contributions to increasing our burgeoning national debt is, according to the following (1)rooted in deceit, therefore is is not surprising that so much of it's budget is assisting corrupt regimes and scam projects.

1 "A supposedly independent charity campaign to pressure the Government
into spending more on foreign aid was secretly orchestrated by David Cameron, his ministers and aid organisations funded by the taxpayer,"

Robert Mendick,and Edward Malnick Daily Telegraph 30 June 2013.

War on Want, a poverty charity which obtained details of the meetings through
a Freedom of Information request, refused to take part in the 'IF campaign'
because of alleged government interference. The charity claims it was told it could only join the movement if it refused to criticise government policy.

John Hilary, War on Want’s executive director, said:
“The internal documents reveal that the Government has for two years, been
planning with the aid agencies to use the IF campaign to promote the Prime
Minister as a leader on the global stage.”

Douglas Carswell, (at that time) a Conservative MP and long-standing critic of
DfID’s aid policies, said:

“This is more evidence that big corporate aid organisations collude with big
government to spend our money."

So much for our PM's commitment to greater transparency that he waffled on about in the 2010 Tory manifesto

All Amnesty Information are gathered from Ethiopian who are waiting for an answer for there pending asylum request in different countries how can these people can say good things about there own government. we understand we are behind in many measurements of democratic government but i do not believe our government is as harsh as you mentioned. we are trying to build democratic institutions which can insure individual liberties and freedoms but it takes time but not long. Sensitives reports like amnesty international must be balanced and has to try to get information in both sides other ways they devastate an infant democracy which trying to stand in two feets.

It still amazes me that supposedly intelligent Brits keep referring to "aid" as if it had much to do with altruistic, selfless goals. What's the excuse for this level of wilful ignorance?

shut up !old woman...pathetic England ..u always pray on the week African to destabilize... the day will come for us like china and russia

Dream on. Your country is full of laziness and thieves. That is why it is a big pile of dung. And if your Baas finds out you are using his computer, he will skin your @rse with his sjambok...

Wasn't it Italy that invaded Ethiopia (Abyssinia)? All we have ever done is give you a great deal of money.

Had to laugh at an Eritrean asylum seeker living here, bad mouthing Britain on Newsnight for colonising his country, thus suggesting we owed them. Of course it totally escaped the BBC presenter that we have never colonised Eritrea who were loving having some foreigner bad mouthing our country, regardless of the fact he was clueless about the history of his own country.

Weak, not week. Did you go to the DFID funded schools, or did you bunk off (look it up)?

So you want to be like Russia and be a failing economy reliant on oil and gas money, and in deep deep do do? Oh hang on, most of Africa is already there, just change the word oil for aid. So well done for achieving your aims.

Can you speak a single sentence in any of the ethiopian languages, or any other language? May be it's his third or fourth language. I understood what he wanted to say. He could really express himself clearly. Big deal if he said "week". some of you brits are ungrateful for the wealth you accumulated by colonizing and looting those countries not as unfortunate as you naturally, without their consent. Now you complain to give back the little you give from the much you snatched. It's unfair. You didn't earn much of what you got now.

Do you mean 'fortunate' rather than 'unfortunate'? Try to get it right in your little rants, or you really don't make any sense - come to think of it, you don't make any sense anyway.

Anyway onto debunking the myths - do you have any shred of evidence that colonised/protectorate countries were looted? When the wicked colonists left, the roads worked, the railways worked, the hospitals worked, the schools worked, the government worked etc etc. 50 - 60 years later nothing works. Now tell me, why is that?

And no, I don't speak any of the hundreds of dialects found in Africa - that's why many African countries have adopted English - so people can talk to each other.

i mean unfortunate. the looting does not stop even today. i don't need to present an evidence to my looter. i only need to live in africa to know that.and i believe you know that too. you are in deep denial. but i'm not surprised cause you are not the first. and i didn't assume you can speak any of the languages. english is not the language of the gods.

EVIDENCE PLEASE, EVIDENCE PLEASE, EVIDENCE PLEASE.

look at the mirror

Still waiting. EVIDENCE PLEASE, EVIDENCE PLEASE, EVIDENCE PLEASE.

OK I've looked. No evidence there - EVIDENCE PLEASE, EVIDENCE PLEASE, EVIDENCE PLEASE.

C-O-L-O-N-I-S-E. It seems you need to go back to school too.

Pride of the "educated" yet stupid thief.

We had an Empire. Get over it. We never colonised Ethiopia, but it is still a pile of sh*t like every other African country, so we are not responsible for their lack of progress out of the late stone age.

you are indeed a flat dog. not even a real dog.

i know you don't have an empire. you are the small island. you were kicked off everywhere-losers. + YOU ARE THE STONE AGE RACIST.

Reminder to the DT. Which party has a policy of cur=tting foreign aid and ensuring that what we do spend is spent wisely?

Ahh yes, the purple menace! Now I know why that wasn't mentioned.

british aid should be limited to emergency help only. so the victims of the tsunami and the Haitian hurricane would be helped but india and Pakistan (and everyone else that gets aid) wouldn't.

The UK should pay off its debts before its starts to give money away.
If you owe money you should pay off those you owe money to, before
you give money away.

A simple piece of common sense that escapes our Ruling Classes, who are content to fritter our money and that of as yet unborn generations of taxpayers away like a drunken sailor on shore leave.

Madness all is madness, our lights are due to go out, the EU is bleeding us to death and what does Cameron do? He gives away billions which he has to borrow leading to future high taxes on all of us.

Vote Libertarian Party of the UK!

Nah, UKIP.

I can't believe this story, I mean who knew !
It seems we have just ben handing over money to any one who has asked for it all along. Instead of handing over cash, what the donating nations should have been doing is investing in infrastructure and education in these poor countries. Then right now we might not have so many of them pounding on our doors to get in. I am appalled at the way the international community has dealt with this problem for many years, this is far too serious and a man made problem with these some what lazy diplomats and politicians who have overseen these processes have been very lax in attitude.

Even that wouldn't help. The countries are kleptocracies, where even the nailed-down infrastructure will get nicked and sold for scrap, and that's just by the industrious ones.

The rest of them will just sit on their indolent backsides picking their noses and blaming the Wazungu (white men) for all their ills.

Let them get on with it, but no more aid.

I reluctantly have to agree, I have lived in southern Africa and there is a website showing the death of Johannesburg, once a prosperous thriving Metropolis and full of life were many more than do now had jobs. some of the building I knew are derelict and burned out. But this is a good example of what I mean those people were promised the earth and all they really got was to be able to put a cross on a piece of paper, by their conmen governments !
In one of the main squares was once a fountain made of several bronze leaping gazelles, now I hear three plastic picnic chairs and a plastic table stand in it's place. It seems some how they skipped the twentieth century and have gone back two hundred years.

Agree.

Kenya & Tanzania - 7 years
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe - 8 years

Army ?

Not at the time - grew up out there - my late father was a Mechanical Engineer working for the (then) Ministry for Overseas Development, training the local talent on the railways.

And now you're living in the UK.
I travelled a lot through SA Rhodesia and Zambia I was in my mid 20s, working in construction in JHB and PE It was lovely time to be there, the people were lovely and so friendly. I have many wonderful memories of that period. Not sure me and my companions would survive the experience we had then, in this day and age !
Have you read a book By Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun ?

It is small information about the aid of western on human right violation. We Oromo in Ethiopia are under very devastating condition because of brutal TPLF leading government. In Ethiopia, there is no any change because of westerns aid, no clean water, no health facility, no electricity, no school and many nos. However, we have number military force in Africa. Therefore, please listen to us and stop to support this dictator government and enforce democratization.

My own personal view is the 'west' should have invested in parts of Africa and started after ww2. Africa's people should not have to suffer the indignity of migration in order to boost survive hopes. Many parts of Africa are self sustaining but it's leaders are brutal and self serving monsters. The west should have taken steps to remove Mugabe and others like him, he murdered 30 thousand of his own people because he knew they would not vote for him. In many African countries the birth rate is far too high for the populations to be sustained by their own produce and unfortunately have become cash cows for their own governments in the fact that any aid becomes targeted by corrupt governments and never reaches the people who need it. The West spend too much time focusing on trying to educate Islamic countries, as we now see a seemingly impossible task.

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Indeed. I know of Godwin's book, but I neven't had the pleasure of reading it. No doubt it would bring back some memories. I was in Bulawayo at the time of the Gukurahundi, when Mugabe's 5 Brigade murdered 30,000 Matabele men, women and children.