BBC holds firm over Ethiopia famine funds report

Bob Geldof and charities deny aid was spent on weapons but corporation executives say reports are credibleThe BBC is standing by a report that 95% of the $100m aid raised to fight famine in northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted by rebels and spent on weapons, despite denials by Bob Geldof and leading charities.A programme broadcast last week by the BBC World Service's Africa editor, Martin Plaut, suggested that rebels in the province of Tigray tricked aid workers into giving them the money, whi...

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