§ Lord BARNBYasked Her Majesty's Government:
What are the amounts paid in aid, under all headings, to each African "emergent country", during the last accounting period; and what, for each such country, is the intended aid programme for 1980–81.
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN and COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS (Lord Carrington)Full statistics for the financial year 1979–80 are not yet available. Details of gross aid expenditure to Africa in calendar year 1979 are given below. It is not the practice to92WA publish details of forward programmes to individual countries, beyond what is shown in the Supply Estimates, because planning assumptions may not be realised or, in certain cases, may require adjustment during the course of the year.
UK GROSS EXPENDITURE ON OVERSEAS AID TO AFRICA, 1979
Financial Aid £ '000 Technical Co-operation Total Algeria — 53 53 Angola 11 32 43 Benin — 52 52 Botswana 2,906 4,498 7,404 Burundi — 17 17 Cameroon 700 425 1,124 Cape Verde 34cr 5 28cr Chad 1 45 45 Congo — 71 71 Egypt 13,838 3,735 17,573 Ethiopia 2,084 793 2,877 Gabon — 0 0 Gambia 1,011 1,482 2,493 Ghana 8,599 2,616 11,215 Guinea — 0 0 Guinea-Bissau 171 3 173 Ivory Coast 2,692 242 2,934 Kenya 18,223 10,337 28,560 Lesotho 4,954 1,614 6,569 Liberia 903 290 1,193 Madagascar — 100 100 Malawi 17,859 5,455 23,314 Mali 311 178 489 Mauritania 75cr 33 42cr Mauritius 1,787 794 2,581 Morocco — 34 34 Mozambique 5,954 415 6,369 Namibia — 161 161 Niger 876 52 928 Nigeria — 5,080 5,080 Rhodesia (a) — 5,070 5,070 Rwanda — 2 2 Senegal 814 166 980 Seychelles 3,552 1,276 4,828 Sierra Leone 281 1,548 1,829 Somalia 985 326 1,311 Sudan 7,848 5,286 13,134 Swaziland 6,673 1,678 8,351 St. Helena 3,553 382 3,935 Tanzania 16,507 7,051 23,559 Togo — 52 52 Tunisia — 81 81 Uganda 774 1,438 2,212 Upper Volta — 24 24 Zaire 2,210 105 2,315 Zambia 19,932 9,227 29,159 Regional programmes 24 2,061 2,085 TOTAL 145,925 74,865 220,307 Notes: 0=expenditure of less than £ 1, 000.
cr=credit.
(a)=Training programme for Rhodesian students