Nelson Mandela to back global anti-poverty campaign on visit to London
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela will back a massive anti-poverty campaign launched by charities and other groups while on a visit to London next month, organisers said.
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South African icon Nelson Mandela  challenged leaders of rich nations on Thursday to ease the  plight of the poor by slashing debt, boosting aid and making  world trade fairer.
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Seven developing countries in Africa and Asia will be the first to take part in a new global health campaign aimed at directing aid more effectively at the basic needs of poor countries, Britain said on Wednesday.
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Sweden has pledged more than US $2 million to the Global AIDS Fund in response to an appeal from former South African President Nelson Mandela.
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Britain will be seeking approval from the United States for its grand plan to help alleviate poverty in Africa when finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised nations convene here Friday and ...
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Prime Minister Tony Blair was among dozens of politicians and celebrities backing a British-based campaign launched today which urges tourists to boycott Myanmar because of its appalling human rights record.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair this week will put efforts to curb disease and poverty in Africa at the center of the agenda of the Group of Eight industrial nations next year.
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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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Britain launched a last-ditch bid to muster support for its plan to rid Africa of poverty despite a flat rejection by the United States in talks among the Group of Seven industrial powers on Saturday.
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More than 100 charities, trade unions and campaign groups join forces to urge Tony Blair to fight poverty.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has agreed to visit London in February to help jumpstart London's proposal for a "new Marshall Plan" to help ease African nations' chronic poverty, the British media reported.
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Rich countries are likely to back Britain's bid to channel more debt relief and resources to Africa, which is ready to shake off the shackles of poverty, British finance minister Gordon Brown said.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown  visited one of Africa's largest slums on Wednesday at the start  of a tour of the continent aimed at making the fight against  poverty a top priority for the world's richest nations.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes  a farewell trip to Africa this week, after using his decade in  power to try to rally the world&#39;s richest countries to help  ease the plight of the world&#39;s poorest.
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Cape Town - Sweden has announced a new contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in response to an urgent appeal from former president Nelson Mandela and United States rock star Bono, according to the South African government
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela, surrounded by rock stars, launched a book of photographs of a major anti-AIDS concert on Thursday with a call to ordinary
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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.