Jim Webster writes

it certainly looks grim. The sensible thing to do in that sort of area is
for them to diversify out of food production,

That's what they are trying. They have borrowed to buy beads to make
necklaces. The whole thing sounds like a classical pyramid sell and if
it is they will have big debts, a pile of unsaleable necklaces, and
borrowings to boot.

get jobs where their labour
will undercut European wage rates and buy food in.

Unskilled, uneducated and isolated. Hmmm....

Even a part time job that paid enough to let them get a proper diet would
help break the downward spiral.

There are no jobs. There is little infrastructure.

It's (I think) the third poorest country in the world.

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