Deadline for the Dark Continent
Almost ten years ago
Michael Buerk observed, first hand, the utter degradation of those caught in the Ethiopian famine. Since then the whole of Africa has continued to slide into poverty. In the second of four programmes, Michael Buerk looks at the West's attempts to shore up bankrupt countries like Tanzania. Who has benefited most from these economic interventions - the country's impoverished coffee farmers or the bureaucrats of Dares Salaam? Producer Sue Davies