Oh well, another attempt to get shot of the problem failed.
I guess we'll just have to persuade the IRA to take up robbing banks rather than just blowing people up. Oh, hang on a minute...
Back on topic, the reason Africa's so high up the list is that we haven't put the effort into exporting good government that we have elsewhere. Europe, Asia and South America for instance got far more attention during the cold war, and had a far less destructive experience of colonialism as a whole.
The scariest statistic I've heard recently is that something like 80% of foreign aid to africa ends up in Swiss bank accounts...
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