If one is surprised to read this then one is really naïve or just living in the colorful world of Jacob Zuma:
At least some of that money was likely to have come from the £150 million raised by Live Aid and Band Aid. More than three million copies of Do They Know It's Christmas sold in just five weeks in late 1984 to raise funds for the estimated eight million Ethiopians facing starvation. Up to a million died.
According to a report published on Wednesday, rebel soldiers disguised themselves as grain traders and handed over sacks of sand hidden beneath genuine food aid, in return for cash from Western donations.
The simple fact is that when aid is sent to countries with no civil society or working government to make sure that it gets where it needs to go, it tends to get lost in the way or rather to find its way in the pockets of a lot of unsavory characters.
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