UN AIDS envoy urges Blair to make G8 do more for Africa
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The United Nations envoy on AIDS urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to persuade the world's richest countries to provide more funds to step up treatment of the disease in Africa.
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At a conference to discuss Africa's future, British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed the international community to raise $150 million to help people caught up by violence in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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The leaders of the Group of Eight met with African leaders on their summit's concluding day Friday, agreeing on a $60 billion package to fight disease in Africa as diplomats worked behind the scenes on a possible deal with Russia over Kosovo's future.
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Tony Blair is pushing for a broader  mandate in the Middle East that would give him a more direct  role in peacemaking, expanding the limited envoy job that world  powers gave him last month, diplomats said on Tuesday.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Leaders of the world's major powers will turn their attention to Africa on Friday and are widely expected to announce a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases.
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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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a clarion call Thursday for the world to help Africa free itself from poverty, disease and conflict, describing his personal crusade for the continent as "the one noble ...
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Poverty and conflict in Africa have  made it a refuge for terrorists, British Prime Minister Tony  Blair said on Thursday at a summit in Ethiopia he hopes will  turn the continent's problems into a global priority.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants  to use a farewell trip to Africa this week to build momentum  for a rich nation summit that will focus on Africa and to push  for a world trade deal, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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Tony Blair heads to Germany this week for his last G8 summit as prime minister, hoping to secure greater commitments on aid to Africa and movement on a new deal to tackle climate change.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said that despite the huge aid operation in Asia, the world must step up efforts to tackle the plight of Africa, where there is "the equivalent of a man-made preventable tsunami every week".
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged NATO allies to do more in Afghanistan, saying the alliance's credibility and global security were at risk.
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At a conference to discuss Africa's future, British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed the international community to raise &#36;150 million to help people caught up by violence in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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Group of Eight leaders called Sunday for more AIDS funding to improve monitoring and to give more people access to treatment.
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The UN special envoy to Sudan has urged African states to speed up moves to send a large force to Darfur and called on the West to back their efforts with generous logistical support.
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The world&#39;s richest nations need to show greater commitment towards Africa, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, amid concern that pledges on aid and development were falling short.
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ADDIS ABABA: British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to say on Thursday that the time for excuses on Africa is over as he chairs a meeting in Ethiopia he hopes will turn the continentâs problems into a global priority.