Mandela Urges Nations to Fight Poverty
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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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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo implored dozens of fellow African leaders Sunday to work together to overcome the poverty, disease and conflict afflicting the world's poorest continent.
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Dozens of world leaders appealed at UN headquarters on Monday for an international initiative to ensure the poor can join the wealthy in sharing in the benefits of a global economy.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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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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Progressive leadership in some African  states presents a big opportunity for development but donor  countries and especially the United States must respond, World  Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Monday.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki urged members of the new Pan-African Parliament to be the &quot;fearless champions&quot; of people who are hungry for change and hope to see a &quot;humane Africa&quot; finally born.
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Oxfam urges Tony Blair to make the fight against African poverty a priority for his time left in office.
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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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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - South African President Thabo Mbeki promised to step up the fight against crime, improve AIDS programs and ease poverty in his annual state of the nation speech on Friday.
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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is under pressure over crime but his annual speech is expected to highlight poverty.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair was set Thursday to press wealthy countries to show greater commitment to fighting poverty in Africa, on the final leg of his farewell tour of the continent.
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With Africa lagging behind in global development goals and rich countries cutting aid, leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme poverty on the continent.
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Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday and urged world leaders to get on with fighting poverty and stop wasting money on wars like the one in Iraq.
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World poverty could be consigned to museums if banks and governments stimulate the creative energies of millions of poor people, Muhammad Yunus, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, said on Saturday.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki has urged the Non-Aligned Movement to work flat out to resolve world conflicts, reform the United Nations and towards the eradication of 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 ...