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Africa in the 21st Century : In the News
Africa seeks climate change cash
- Source: BBC News
24th August 2009
The leaders of 10 African countries are gathering in Ethiopia to try to agree a common position on climate change.
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Is trade, not aid, the answer for Africa?
- Source: The Guardian
- 25th May 2009
Donors are now focusing less on charity and more on the continent's small entrepreneurs
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Africa needs GM food, says top scientist
- Source: The Independent
- 8th September 2008
The Government's former chief scientific adviser,Sir David King, says that advanced approaches to agriculture, such as GM crops, are the only way Africa will be able to feed itself.
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How George W Bush became an African hero
- Source: The Daily Telegraph
- 7th July 2008
President Bush has made America the biggest single donor to the Global Fund for Aids, tuberculosis and malaria, contributing one third of its Pounds 5 billion
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Rich nations are ‘betraying’ Africa
- Source: The Independent
- 3rd July 2008
The world's richest nations will today be told by Gordon Brown to stop backsliding on their pledges to double aid to Africa by 2010. Backing Bob Geldolf, who warned yesterday that high energy prices are starving the super-poor in Africa.
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Overseas Aid: Aid package stays true to £9bn promise made at G8
- Source: The Independent
- 10th October 2007
Increases in international aid announced yesterday by the Government will enable Gordon Brown to keep promises given to Bono and Bob Geldoff at the Gleneagles summit on doubling support for Africa.
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Aid isn’t the answer. Africa must be allowed to trade its way out of poverty
- Source: The Independent
- 16th May 2006
Sir Bob Geldof advocates a "stand-alone" trade deal for Africa's poor, to enable poorer states the chance to reduce their poverty through a more balanced global trade regime.
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