Blair urges greater efforts to combat poverty in Africa
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The world&#39;s richest nations need to show greater commitment towards Africa, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, amid concern that pledges on aid and development were falling short.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday urged rich nations to keep their promises of financial aid to Africa, saying failure to do so could threaten the continent's march toward prosperity and democracy.
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As Tony Blair sits down to a summit in Ethiopia today the stakes - or hype - could not be greater: the rescue of Africa. The British prime minister&#39;s commission on Africa is meeting on the continent for the
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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's richest countries to help ease the plight of the world's poorest.
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Britain's treasury chief called Thursday for half a trillion dollars in new aid for poor nations, particularly in Africa, a continent where Prime Minister Tony Blair said a tsunami-scale death toll happens every week.
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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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Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned the African slave trade and expressed deep sorrow for Britain's role &#151; but stopped short Monday of offering an apology or compensation for the descendants of those victimized by it.
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African leaders pitched on Monday for more trade and investment from Asia, saying they were pushing through economic and political reforms that will open up business opportunities in the continent.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday called for greater international support to bolster the African Union peacekeeping force on the second leg of a farewell tour of the continent.
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At a conference to discuss Africa&#39;s future, British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed the international community to raise $150 million to help people caught up by violence in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair wrapped up a farewell tour of Africa on Friday with a call for fellow G8 leaders to &quot;step up to the plate&quot; and do more to alleviate the misery of the world&#39;s poorest continent at their upcoming summit.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - British Prime Minister  Tony Blair is to say Thursday that the time for excuses on  Africa is over as he chairs a meeting in Ethiopia he hopes will  turn the continent's problems into a global priority.
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Nelson Mandela on Thursday compared widespread poverty in developing countries to man-made evils such as slavery and apartheid, and urged wealthy nations to do more to fight it.
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LONDON  - Rich nations need to do much more to overcome global poverty, Oxfam said in a report aimed at influencing Britain&#39;s turn at the helm of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations.
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Opening a meeting of the British sponsored Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, told delegates that it was &quot;time to turn international attention into international action&quot;.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will try to push poverty reduction back onto the G8 agenda, warning it will take &amp;quot;hard work for years to come&amp;quot; to tackle extreme poverty in Africa.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a clarion call for the world to help Africa free itself from poverty, disease and conflict, describing his personal crusade for the continent as &quot;the one noble cause worth fighting for&quot;.