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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Some 50,000 Africans in 28 countries give their verdict on how they are governed in a United Nations survey.
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The government announced on Wednesday that it will provide three million pounds (4.4 million euros, 6.1 million dollars) worth of aid to Niger aimed at tackling the root causes of poverty and malnutrition in the west African nation.
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Billionaire George Soros pledged $3 million Wednesday to fight a deadly strain of tuberculosis in Africa.
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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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Wealthy countries need to do much more to fight global poverty, the international aid agency Oxfam says.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki pledged to tackle poverty and crime, speed up land redistribution to blacks and fight AIDS in a speech on Friday that focused on the country's most glaring social ills.
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A portion of sales goes to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.
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UNICEF said Tuesday that it was providing urgently needed aid for 50,000 people caught up in an upsurge in fighting in Congo.
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Getting the world&#39;s richest nations to hand over promised aid for Africa is like &quot;getting blood out of a stone,&quot; rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof found at the Group of Eight summit on Wednesday.
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Proponents say the Ibrahim Prize will help improve the continent's crippling governance problem.
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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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A push by developed nations could cut poverty in half within a generation, the UN says.
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Bono, who has helped bring worldwide attention to medical and economic problems in Africa, will receive this year's Liberty Medal.
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Coping with the ravages of global warming will cost $50 billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution must pay most of the bill, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.
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American economist Jeffrey Sachs has a novel way to tackle African poverty: Shower more aid on the world's poorest continent.