Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Coming up, playing with

numbers is one African country cooking the books for the sake of winning aid money. They claimed

a decline in poverty since 2011 of 6%. And we believe that that's simply not possible. We're

pretty convinced that certainly during this period poverty increased by as much as 6%.

The problem of dodgy data in Africa increasingly at all, some say, of authoritarian governments.

You cannot have development without evidence.

If evidence becomes a crime, it's just not possible.

That's all to come in business daily from the BBC.

Underlying intertribal tensions have again exploded into violence.

Apparently with thousands dead,

as rebel forces from the minority Tutsi tribe

appear to be fighting the army dominated by

the majority Hutus.

The Rwandan genocide, as it was reported back in 1994, the killing, born of ethnic rivalry

and hatred.

I've seen some of the most terrible things today that I've ever seen, the random killing

groups of ewes armed with knives. I'm afraid I think

that's still going on. Up to a million civilians died in just a hundred days of slaughter. Women,

children, the elderly, butchered with machetes, or some of them burned to death. They became a

symbol of an era, an emblem of man's deepest and

darkest in humanity. The genocide is also remembered by some for the indifference and neglect of the

outside world, seemingly slow to intervene in what was regarded as a local internecine conflict.

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