Mali's government under criticism
The Malian
government has come under fire recently from two international heavyweights:
the IMF and the UN. The first of these
attacks seems perfectly justified, delivered by the super elegant Christine Lagarde
( I think I am going to dye my hair white like hers, since it is already half
way there? But I digress....)
The IMF has refused to cough
up the next instalment of its loan to Mali ( forty six million dollars over
three years). Instead the loan has been
delayed at least until September pending investigations regarding the scandal
over the presidential jet, bought not long after IBKs inauguration as president
for a sum reported by IBK as forty million dollars and by his prime minister
Moussa Mara as thirty six million dollars.
Whatever. I cannot believe how
idiotic this purchase was!
posted by toubab at 10:05 AM
4 Comments:
Unfortunately so African to do such things. This is what we expect. It would be best for the IMF to put Africa on a cure d'amaigrissement and cut off all funding period.
I think I agree with you Laurent..
While the USA has no compunction in resuming its funding of the butchers in the Egyptian government. They just sent $572m in military aid and there will be more to come. Sisi, the former head of the armed forces, is now the "civilian" president but it's a military dictatorship in all but name.
drock the Hotel blog.
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