Food — and other kinds of aid — gets diverted to line the pockets of corrupt officials more often than we know. We take you behind the scenes in Ethiopia, where food theft led to aid being stalled while many went hungry.
Also in today’s edition: Aid and development need a reputational boost, civil society steps up at the World Health Organization, and the British prime minister wants to give another crucial conflab a miss.
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