Economic Conference Focuses on Africa's Plight
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The world's richest man, one of its most visible social activists and Britain's leader put a sharp focus on the horrors facing Africa's poor on Thursday, saying the planet's indifference to the suffering has been scandalous.
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BERLIN, May 30 (IPS) - In the preparations for this year's summit of  the Group of Eight most industrialised countries, to take place  Jun. 6-8 in the Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm, Germany,  aid for Africa has topped the agenda. But the farm subsidy factor  is likely to be avoided in the debate.
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The African Union called on the  international community to take tougher action in Ivory Coast  and Congo, two of the continent's biggest crises that risk  destabilizing their wider regions.
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Heads of state from 17 African countries attended the opening of an African Union summit in Burkina Faso to craft a jobs creation plan to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty.
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Africa's economy will grow faster this year, but changes are still needed if it is to catch up with the rest of the world.
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More than 25 heads of state meet in Nigeria to try to resolve some of the Africa's most pressing problems.
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A summit of Latin American leaders in Guyana calls for more attention to be paid to poverty and social problems.
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African Union leaders gathered in Ethiopia were set Saturday to discuss means of containing the violence in Kenya and Chad during a special meeting on the last day of their summit.
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How to create sustainable employment for impoverished, mostly illiterate African populations residing primarily in rural areas is the challenge the African Union aims to tackle at a summit opening Wednesday in Burkina Faso.
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African economies face a daunting challenge to catch up with the rest of the world after missing out on two decades of growth, a new report by the World Bank has said.
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon  - Three of Africa's big crises  -- strife in Ivory Coast, fighting in Congo and the  humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur -- provide a daunting  agenda for an African Union summit that began Monday in Gabon.
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Since yesterday, leaders of countries that make up the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have been meeting in Mauritius. The tone of the speeches presented so far suggests that the meeting will not be any different from previous ones. The ...
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African leaders meet in an effort to end a decade of wars that have killed millions in the Great Lakes region.
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Leaders of the African Union began a three-day summit here Sunday focused on plans to forge a confederation of states with an acknowledgement the continent&#39;s current system of governance had to improve.
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African leaders struggled on Tuesday to  avoid a damaging split over moves to unite the continent under  one federal government.
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France hosts an international aid conference aimed at reviving the state of the Palestinian economy.
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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.