Africa Needs Bed Nets Not Advisers - UN Adviser
SENEGAL: January 25, 2006
DAKAR - Africa needs practical help such as medicine and fertilisers to beat poverty, not more advisers from rich nations, a top economist and UN adviser said on Tuesday.

Could PlanetArk have written the headline I quote above with tongue in cheek? I don’t know why, but I find it unlikely.

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