Why Live Aid D Is Dead Aid ; We Applaud Ourselves for Giving to the Third World, but a New Book by an African Writer Argues the Billions It Receives in Aid Are the Reason It's Trapped in Dire Poverty [Eire Region]

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WE ARE accustomed to bizarre outbursts and posturings from multimillionaire celebrities, especially when they spot a chance to portray themselves as concerned philanthropists with almost painfully big hearts.

Their favourite method is to drop in for a few hours at some televised charity event -- Live8, Live Earth or Comic Relief, which takes place in Britain tomorrow.

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Why Live Aid D Is Dead Aid ; We Applaud Ourselves for Giving to the Third World, but a New Book by an African Writer Argues the Billions It Receives in Aid Are the Reason It's Trapped in Dire Poverty [Eire Region]

Perhaps the best-known, and certainly the loudest among them, is our own Bono. His efforts have won him an honorary knighthood, no fewer than Nobel Prize nominations and the adulation of world leaders. Yet one of Bono's most significant outbursts -- rude, heckling and laden with expletives -- took place away from the world's TV cameras at a small conference it Tanzania recently.Bono had been enraged by a Ugandan writer called Andrew Mwenda, who was presenting a powerful case that international aid, far from mist. More importantly, she is herself helping lift Africa out of poverty, might in fact be the very cause of its troubles.

Even the suggestion that this might be the case sent 'Saint' Bono into a f...

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