Britain's finance minister off to Africa to pitch new 'Marshall Plan'
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Britain's finance minister Gordon Brown began a week-long mission to Africa to pitch his ambitious proposal for a "new Marshall Plan" to help lift the continent out of chronic poverty.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown opened a week-long tour of Africa with an appeal for the developed world to back a "new Marshall Plan" to ease the continent's chronic poverty.
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The prime minister tells the BBC tackling Aids in Africa will be a priority when Britain takes the helm of the G8.
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Britain will seek Washington's support  to help it achieve goals on global poverty reduction, debt  relief and fair trade during London's G8 presidency next year,  finance minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown will launch the UK's 2005 presidency of the Group of Eight rich nations with a six-day visit to Africa to highlight the need for more money for the world's poorest countries.
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Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to visit Africa this week, in his last trip to the continent he has championed during his 10 years in power, his office said Tuesday.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown  outlines his plans to increase aid to developing countries and eliminate their debt.
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Foreign secretary outlines his desire for 'second decade' of Labour government.
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Tony Blair returned to Britain from Africa Saturday after his last major foreign trip as prime minister in which he sought to refocus global attention on the continent ahead of the G8 summit.
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Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, appointed a trusted ally as finance minister on Thursday and promoted a rising star to the key post of foreign minister in a wide-ranging government shakeup.
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Tony Blair, the British prime minister, is in Ethiopia to chair a summit he hopes will turn Africa&#39;s problems into a global priority.
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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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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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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flies to Sudan tomorrow to try and end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. He is going to press on the government the need to rein in and bring to justice Arab militias
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is traveling to Sudan and Ethiopia this week as part of his diplomatic initiative to deal with some of the most difficult problems in Africa.
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The UK is to pay off 10 percent of the money owed by the world&#39;s poorest countries to the World Bank and the African Development Bank in an attempt to free them from &quot;the shackles of debt&quot;, British Finance Minister Gordon Brown was to announce today.
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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.