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The devil is in the details. A breakdown of this pumped up generosity would be helpful to enable the identification of the real beneficiaries as the information here presented is woefully incomplete.
Adelaide
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I wish someone would "not care" about me this much.
Overview of U.S. Economic Assistance to Africa:
Total Africa Bureau Budget Request for FY 2004 $1,041,050,000
Encouraging Broad-Based Economic Growth, Trade, and Agriculture
Economic Growth and Trade: $89,204,000
Agriculture: $134,100,000
Protecting the Environment: $82,200,000
Building Human Capacity through Education and Training: $125,619,000
Combating HIV/AIDS and Protecting Human Health: $542,105,000
Strengthening Democracy and Preventing Conflict: $67,822,000
Humanitarian Response
Humanitarian crises, whether man-made or natural disasters, continue to
plague Africa and show no signs of abating. These emergencies threaten
lives, economic growth, democratic progress and regional stability. USAID
supports efforts to build African capacity to better cope with the effects
of these humanitarian crises. In East and Southern Africa, millions of
people continue to be vulnerable to food shortages brought on by severe
drought and other factors. The U.S. Government has been the largest donor
to the World Food Program's operations to deliver food aid to these famine
affected areas.
<http://www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2003/pr030702.html>Press Release:
American Food Aid Pledges Top One Million Tons for the Ethiopian
Humanitarian Crisis
Last Updated on: July 10, 2003
At 01:23 PM 7/29/03 -0400, you wrote:
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>
>Sorry, Vera, but I must correct one inference you made
>from my e-mail about America's role in the Libeian
>conflict. My statement regarding America's heart and soul
>was not implying that America's heart and soul are WITH
>Liberia. Quite to the contrary! The comparisons I cited
>about America's response in Bosnia versus Rwanda and in
>Afghanistan and Iraq versus Sierra Leone and Liberia were
>designed to paint a picture that says America cares little
>or nothing about Africa. At least, that's how it appears
>to me.
>
>Thanks for sharing.
>
>- Wilmot
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