G8 trumpets Africa aid deal as summit ends
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World powers on Friday  pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other diseases ravaging  Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of  Eight had offered little fresh cash for the poor.
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With Africa lagging behind in global development goals and rich countries cutting aid, leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme poverty on the continent.
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Libya hosts a summit of 23 African leaders on Saturday against the backdrop of conflicts in Darfur, Ivory Coast and Somalia.
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President George W. Bush named eight  more countries on Thursday to get U.S. assistance for malaria  prevention and treatment in Africa, where the disease kills a  million people a year, and asked Europeans to do more to help.
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African leaders sought to reconcile differences between neighbours Chad and Sudan over Darfur and boost Somalia&#39;s embattled transitional government at a regional summit in Libya on Sunday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal organisation to spearhead development activities in Africa issued a call on Thursday for massive international cooperation to assist the continent.
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The prime minister tells the BBC tackling Aids in Africa will be a priority when Britain takes the helm of the G8.
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Poverty in Africa, global economic growth and revaluation of China's currency were the issues expected to dominate a two-day meeting of top G7 finance ministers.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday called on G8 leaders meeting this week to agree concrete measures to help Africa and on the United States to go further in proposals on climate change.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders agreed on Friday a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa and restated broader promises to double development spending.
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The British prime minister wraps up his farewell tour to Africa this week, ahead of next week's G-8 summit in Germany.
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A summit of African leaders ends with a series of moves aimed at helping secure a peace deal in Ivory Coast.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair was urged today to use Britainâs upcoming presidency of the G8 to broker a global agreement to cancel poor countriesâ debt and double spending on aid.
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Political tensions are expected to overshadow progress on climate change and African aid as leaders gathered Wednesday for the annual Group of Eight Summit being held in Heiligendamm, Germany.
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BERLIN, May 24  (IPS) - With two weeks to go to this year's summit of  heads of state and government of the world's eight most  industrialised countries (G8), respect for demonstrators'  rights and the fulfilment of the group's economic aid  promises for Africa are at the heart of the preparations.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The Group of Eight industrialized nations have struck a deal to increase their global aid for the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis to $60 billion, a G8 diplomat said on Friday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair wants China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa to join the G8 to secure multilateral deals on trade, climate change and Iran, The Guardian newspaper said.