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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9686

20 June 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/development
Africa Progress Panel warns G8, which has not kept its promises towards Africa

Brussels, 19/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - As African countries are the first to suffer from the world food crisis, it should be pointed out that the G8 countries are not keeping their promise made in 2005 to double financial aid to Africa by 2010, except to fill an immediate deficit of €40 billion. This failure is what, on 16 June, prompted the alarm cry from the Africa Panel Progress, an independent committee of 11 eminent figures created one year ago and chaired by Kofi Annan, to draw the...

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