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Is This Actually True?

The charity says since the original Band Aid campaign, the number of Africans living on handouts has increased by 500 per cent and African governments who used to rely on only 20 per cent of their annual budget from overseas aid are now dependent on a 70 per cent contribution.

Anyone got the figures?

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Kit
Kit
17 years ago

Africa is becoming the world’s welfare ghetto.
In the Telegraph was this quote “Bob Geldof has done more harm to Africa than Bob Mugabe. “

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