Aid to Africa: donations from west mask '$60bn looting' of continent The Guardian Tax Evasion, Illicit Wealth Western countries are using aid to Africa as a smokescreen to hide the "sustained looting" of the continent as it loses nearly $60bn a year through tax evasion, climate change mitigation, and the flight of profits earned by foreign multinational companies, a group of NGOs has claimed. U.K. The Guardian 2015 2015 Text 3p. iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/aid_to_africa_donations_from_west_mask_'$60bn_looting'_of_continent_.pdf