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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I often wonder about the long term effects of Band Aid.

Is there less famine in Africa or the World?

Spoilered for being a total bummer.

Spoiler!

"The Ethiopian dictator, Mengistu, until then deadlocked in the war, was using the money the west gave him to buy sophisticated weapons from the Russians, and was now able to efficiently and viciously crush the opposition. Ethiopia, then the third poorest country in the world, suddenly had the largest, best equipped army on the African continent."

https://www.spin.com/featured/live-a...eldof-feature/

I like to think Live Aid and "do they know it's christmas time?" is where Bono learned that you could leverage western guilt into huge sums of money with little to no oversight, allowing him to get richer than everyone in Pink Floyd combined.