Get with the programme

Generous reconstruction aid comes with unprecedented donor micro-management

Donors meeting in Paris on 13-14 November pledged US$650 million in aid over four years but that wasn't the meeting's main purpose. Two days of talks with a big government delegation led by Vice-President Solomon Berewa produced a detailed programme of development goals for 2003-04; donor representatives will meet the government every two months in Freetown to discuss progress.

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Solomon Berewa, Britain, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Ghana, Liberia, Mats Karlsson, Germany, Siaka Stevens, Farming first, United States, Kadi Sesay, Jean-Raymond Boulle, Australia, Joe Demby, Germany, French, Arthur Johnson, Neneh Dabo, Congo-Kinshasa, Sudan

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