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TIL aid expert David Rieff argues that Live Aid donations helped fund a brutal resettlement programme that may have killed up to 100,000. Ethiopia remains one of Africa's poorest countries, and the whole of sub-Saharan Africa is worse off today than it was after Live Aid.

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