No, maybe I did not phrase it correctly, sorry about that. Going to bed hungry was a reference to Angola, not Egypt.
I read a book about an Australian ex-pat doctor that was working in remote south eastern corner of Angola, pretty humbling. Different cultures. He had to explain that he did not do surgery, this came as a suprise to the other doctors who thought all doctors do surgery, In Australia doctors tend to use medicines and surgeons do surgery
Title: band aid for a broken leg -- good read
Some of the other doctors wanted to operate on a patient who had cancer and was going to die anyway. The idea was, yes the patient would eventually die, but it would make the family and patient feel better that they were trying something. The hospital ran on a small budget, and actually did very well in terms of patient outcomes, but the people were very poor. The hospital was quite well run, but had very limited resources.
I know that recently Angola has been drilling a lot of oil and getting a lot of money, so now they are cashed up. But does that money flow through to the common people? Well the state has decreed that the amount of oil extracted, and thus the oil revenues collected are a state secret. So if the money coming in is a state secret, makes it a fraction harder to account for all the funds IMHO
In 2010 it was admitted that 32 billion dollars in oil revenue had gone missing (source human rights watch), which equates to a quarter of GDP, also the central bank could not account for 2.4 billion dollars over a 3 year period, maybe the rats ate it, or it slipped off the back of the shelf?
Transparency International rates Angola as the most corrupt nation in southern africa, even behind Zimbabwe (and that takes some doing).... sigh....
sorry for going off topic,,,, its just a thing that p***ssed me off a lot, when the guys at the top become multi millionaires, whilst the bulk of the people live on almost nothing. Sorry again for going off topic. There was an article in Janes saying that Angola might be interested in buying the Mistral ships, and I spent 15 minutes on it, and could think of a single useful thing the ships would be good for