Africa has become aid-dependent, with net transfers from foreign assistance averaging 9% of gdp.
He was recently fitted for a hearing aid -- one toll of being exposed to many explosions.
Paul Kagame (above), the president who has overseen all this, is a darling of the aid-giving world.
But Mr Mitchell, perhaps fretting about emerging, rival aid-givers such as China, shows no sign of doing so.
They seem more concerned with making ends meet amid a struggling, aid-dependent, economy.
This speaks to the most basic argument against foreign aid - that it undermines local, indigenous organisations and governments.
Mr Meta can point to other achievements to bolster his country's aid-deserving credentials.
Thousands of years ago, this was a survival aid -- your anxiety-induced focus helped you steer clear of potential predators.
Fortunately, there is now an alternative to the sort of aid-for-promises approach embodied in Grand Bargain initiatives like this one.
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Importantly, the government has accepted a WFP plane to go into Yangon tomorrow with emergency food aid - high-energy biscuits.
In December, President Bozize asked France and the US come to CAR's aid - a call rejected by both countries.
From there he was extremely active, visiting flattened villages, overwhelmed hospitals and aid-distribution centres in addition to co-ordinating the response.
Russia receives very little money now from the United States in direct aid -- which dried up a long time ago.
But in Egypt, American pressure proved too great for an aid-hungry government, and the law now makes genital mutilation a crime.
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With the same act, I would be supporting a new class of micro-entrepreneurs creating a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, rather than one of aid-dependence.
We also delivered wheelchairs, medical cots and 1, 400 pounds of medical aid -- everything from cough and cold medicines to first aid supplies.
It will be the third round of bilateral talks since last summer, aimed at restarting six-nation aid-for-disarmament negotiations on North Korea's nuclear program.
In Chechnya she lurks mostly in the margins of the fighting among spooks, middlemen and aid-workers whose ambitions and intrigues she captures lucidly.
Foreign aid-giving governments already tend to look the other way when Uganda's democracy falters, its environment is fouled up, or aid money is stolen.
In the past two years, two famously opposing clarion calls, one from the aid-loving left, the other from the aid-is-always-wasted sceptical right, have been trumpeted.
Be mindful how the tax-minimizing schemes interact with the aid-maximizing schemes.
Their stories, and physical condition, have shocked the most hardened aid-workers.
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The aid - including school supplies, building materials and two large electricity generators - is now stuck at the Israel-Gaza border, our correspondent in Gaza says.
In most states, the percentage of an average family's income used for a public four-year college -- after financial aid -- has increased, the report said.
Providing excessive and non-sustainable recovery assistance to southern Mozambique will reawaken a culture of aid-dependency in a region that was finally beginning to break free from it.
At a pace which astonishes international relief workers, especially those who know aid-addicted Bosnia, they are ordering timber from Montenegro, glass from Bulgaria and bricks from Serbia.
With 17, 000 or so local and foreign aid-workers in Darfur trying to help the victims, the relief operation is still the largest of its kind in the world.
Forced to flee Abyei, they now live in a sprawl of hastily erected huts about 40km south, at Agok, where they survive largely on help from foreign aid-workers.
Africa is the world's most indebted and aid-dependent region, with 17% of GDP flowing out in debt repayments, three times what the Bank believes is a sustainable level.
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