Soros gives $50 mln to tackle African poverty
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Billionaire financier George Soros   pledged $50 million on Wednesday to help the United Nations   tackle extreme poverty and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Angola says it expects to see investors pour $50bn into its oil industry over the next six years.
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The Mo Ibrahim Prize - worth $5m - will be awarded in London to a former African head of state.
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Better financing of public services like water and health care will ease developing world poverty, says Oxfam.
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South African democracy icon Nelson  Mandela challenged rich nations Thursday to help end the misery  of the world's poorest millions.
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The United States is building a partnership with Africa to pull the continent out of poverty, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday as she lent her support to moves to boost U.S.-African trade.
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French President Jacques Chirac will put forward ideas for an international tax scheme that would help build a 50-billion-dollar war chest to fight poverty during a 55-nation conference on economic development ...
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The Group of Eight wealthiest nations pledged 60 billion dollars Friday to fight AIDS and malaria in Africa and uphold an earlier promise to boost development aid.
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Rock star and activist Bono,  pressing wealthy nations to keep their aid promises to Africa,  said on Sunday the continent needs to tackle corruption, the  single biggest obstacle to more investment.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  said on Wednesday it was giving $500 million to the Global Fund  to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, by far its biggest grant to the  fund, which says it sorely lacks cash.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and  the Rockefeller Foundation unveiled on Tuesday a joint $150  million pledge to fight hunger and poverty in Africa by helping  small farmers become more productive.
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Britain is working hard to persuade other rich nations such as the United States and Japan of the need to take action to fight poverty in Africa, according to International Development Secretary Hilary Benn.
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The United States will commit 116 million dollars to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in an effort to help relieve the humanitarian crisis gripping the war-torn Darfur region, the State Department said.
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Progressive leadership in some African  states presents a big opportunity for development but donor  countries and especially the United States must respond, World  Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Monday.
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The Gates and Rockefeller Foundations will spend $150 million (U.S.) over the next five years to help Africa's small farmers boost food production.
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The Zimbabwean state could take a 50% stake in the country's leading mining companies to crack down on what it claims is illegal use of export earnings.
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Cubans hit hard by hurricane Charley will receive &#36;50,000 in U.S. assistance, the State Department said Friday.