Britain: Aid to Africa Is Most Pressing
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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 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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Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal organisation to spearhead development activities in Africa issued a call for massive international cooperation to assist the continent.
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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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At a conference to discuss Africa's future, British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed the international community to raise $150 million to help people caught up by violence in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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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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British Treasury chief Gordon Brown on Monday called on wealthy nations and international institutions to write off Africa's debt, saying debts incurred by past generations are keeping the continent poor.
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LONDON -- Britain is seeking to exploit the momentum from the unprecedented global relief effort for Asian tsunami victims to build support for a different type of generosity: increased long-term development assistance.
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Britain's treasury chief on Thursday called for half a trillion dollars in new aid for poor nations, particularly in Africa, likening the initiative to the U.S. Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War ...
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Britain will provide more debt relief for the world's poorest countries and challenge other rich countries to do the same, Prime Minister Tony Blair's government said Sunday.
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Tony Blair is being urged to use all his negotiating powers to end poor countries&#39; debt and double aid. Some 45m children will die needlessly before 2015 and aid budgets are half their 1960 levels, charity Oxfam says in a new report, Paying the Price.
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Rich countries are likely to back Britain's bid to channel more debt relief and resources to Africa, which is ready to shake off the shackles of poverty, British finance minister Gordon Brown said.
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British charities are continuing their efforts to help people made homeless in violence-hit Kenya.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said that despite the huge aid operation in Asia, the world must step up efforts to tackle the plight of Africa, where there is "the equivalent of a man-made preventable tsunami every week".
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G8 leaders turn their attention to Africa on the final day of their summit, under pressure to honour aid commitments.
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BRITAIN is &quot;in the grip of a serious HIV epidemic&quot; as the number of people suffering from the infection continues to soar, new figures showed today.
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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.