President Who Needs a Wooster to Get Out of Bed the Radio Week

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SUCH repeated heartbreak has weakened the lifeblood of Africa that the 20-per cent decline in aid donations to that impoverished continent carries not shock but dreadful predictability.

Overwhelming generosity to the tsunami victims of south-east Asia partly accounts for this further catastrophe but, as Julian O'Halloran reported in the excellent File On 4 series (Radio 4, Tuesday and Sunday), the fickleness of Western governments bears considerable blame.

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President Who Needs a Wooster to Get Out of Bed the Radio Week

So, Britain's commitment to placing Africa at the top of its G8 agenda is plagued with contradictions, and there is no sharper manifestation of these than the plight of Lesotho. One of the tiniest countries in southern Africa, Lesotho is su...

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