It should comes as no surprise that the verticle tribal system in place for tens of thousands of years, persists in the "tithing" or as in Ghana called "dashing" ( dashing a bit of money into the pockets of tribal chief and ministers.) When cabbies have to bribe (read tithing, or dashing) a member of their own tribe to get a license as well as innumerable instances of paying a higher up for the priveleges of making a living, does anyone wonder where "donors free cash" goes? Wars are fought between African tribes to get governmental jobs where one then inflicts the pecuniary ritual upon people of other tribes. People want government jobs to get rich, and they succeed. Well intentioned governments hire well connected intermediaries. Some intermediaries, even from the donor government, like NGO's, continue to delude themselves that the problems are ones of "recovery" from colonialism. In fact, prior to the 18th century colonialism, tribes were bashing each other, extracting "tribute" and "tithes" from defeated tribes for thousands of years before. Colonialism just provided an outside source of income. So it was in the past, so it is today. The tribal structure of African society is the major impeditment to getting aid to people who despartely need it. Implementing a better tracking of donated money only means that one can now see which Parisian boutique your money went.