Rwanda Should Reject This 'Food for Work' From the UK

opinion

When I heard that the United Kingdom had gone back on its pledge of channelling aid to Rwanda through the budget as general budget support, I was thrown back to the mid-1990s. Rwanda then was a darling of the West. All donor countries were falling over themselves, stuffing her with what went for aid.

The country was an object of pity, having just emerged out of a near-abyss. For that, they sought to appease their conscience.

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