Addicted to Aid

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Duration: 30 minutes

Reporter Sorious Samura visits Uganda and his home country of Sierra Leone to reveal how aid money is lost, stolen and frittered away.

He stops at a showpiece hospital, run by a well-funded health department, that looks like a warzone - yet its carpark is home to dozens of new 4x4s for ministry staff. He questions a former minister accused of stealing funds and offers his vision of how Africans can take control of their own destiny.

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    Sorious Samura asks why despite £400bn of aid being poured into Africa so many are still living in poverty.

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Jeremy Vine
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Sorious Samura

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