The equivalent of $488,000 on a six-night hotel stay

Topline: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sent $1.3 billion in foreign assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year, the world’s fifth-poorest country by GDP per capita.

But new reporting from the Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche revealed that the country’s officials are splurging on their travel expenses. The Congo spent the equivalent of $488,000 on a six-night hotel stay during this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Key facts: The Congo delegation booked “several dozen” rooms at the five-star Hotel Quellenhof, even though there were only six official members in the country’s delegation to the Forum.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/waste-day-congo-splurged-davos-usaid-dime

 

Are hookers and blow included in that tab?