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[africaforum] Oxfam Scandal is all about sex colonialism:

Oxfam Scandal is all about sex colonialism: · These British NGOs have money, they live in villas surrounded by power people or in villas located in the zones where all rich people live · They earn salaries higher than local Ministers · They travel in luxury expensive cars · They are white, and therefore powerful. 'White' means money and power · They can't recruit local people to run local branches of OXFAM for example · They can get anything they want including women for sex · Women who have been abused don't know where to complain because there are no local institutions that can help them · The local authorities keep silence about these abuses to avoid losing aid from OXFAM, UK or other NGOs. · The UK's 0.7% of GDP for international aid is there to sustain the...

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