Thank you for sharing this article. It is heartbreaking and speaks volumes about the world we live in.
I actually live in a fairly poor, non-white country now with my partner who is a native of this place and his preteen son. I'm a white, educated (post-grad) woman and I know plenty of white men involved in (what I would consider exploitative) relationships with local women. I don't think I'm in an exploitative relationship despite being from a more privileged background, although maybe I am. It's always so hard to tell. But I don't want to make this about me, just kind of sharing who I am since I don't post much.
The thing is, we are not in a war zone, and people are poor but they aren't selling their daughters out of desperation (well, not any more than people do in my home country of Australia, or in the US where I lived several years). STILL, the foreign men are highly desired by the locals, and yet they will make high-context slurs against their very wives and girlfriends in front of other educated native English speakers including me. It's just my experience over many years here that men make these snide remarks about local partners. More than half a dozen times, I have nearly come to blows with a white man who called his wife an LBFM (it stands for little brown fucking machine, in case you didn't know) even within earshot of her or her family or their children.
It's all beyond upsetting. And this is part of life here. But to think of men behaving the same way when they are in counties under the guise of bringing aid? I cannot even.