...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers..., Somalia and Sudan, that will start within a few weeks.
It said aid will be cut in half for Syria, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, South Sudan, Libya, Nigeria and Lebanon, despite "the exacerbation of deep poverty and conflicts in light of the Corona pandemic."
The move comes after a reduction of a near-60 percent cut of aid provided to "war-torn Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
", which was considered "the first stark evidence" of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
’s widely criticized decision to cut billions (5.5 billion dollars) annually from the aid budget.
It’s a lot easier to cut foreign aid when the budget desperately needs balancing than domestic social welfare spending...
Proposals for aid cuts amounted to 88 percent in "Lebanon, which is still reeling from the earth-shattering kaboom of the Beirut port last year," according to information obtained by the investigation website Open Democracy.The cuts include plans to stop Sudan’s CSSF budget, which is a fund to combat conflict and promote stability and security, and is part of Britannia's aid program to Sudan, the British newspaper says.
| Libya Review adds: |
According to a report obtained by the openDemocracy website, the UK’s Foreign Office will reduce aid to Libya by 63%, Syria by 67%, Somalia by 60% and South Sudan by 59%.
A Government spokesperson said the “seismic impact of the pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take tough but necessary decisions,” and further decisions on individual aid programmes were still to be made.
Documents obtained by openDemocracy now suggest the total bilateral humanitarian aid programme will be cut from £1.5 billion to £900 million.
The leak comes as more than a hundred UK charities condemned the Government’s decision to cut aid to Yemen. The UK has pledged at least £87 million in aid, down from a promise of £160 million in 2020 and £200 million in 2019.
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