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06/15/2008: "$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives"
Just three years after the G8 group of leading industrial nations pledged a bright new dawn for Africa at the Gleneagles summit, the promises made to double aid to the continent are $40bn behind schedule. Now the UK and the other donor nations are to be urged to consider introducing either an international lottery or a ' tax for Africa'.
The Africa Progress Panel (APP), a watchdog set up to monitor the widely lauded commitments made at the 2005 summit, whose members include Tony Blair, Kofi Annan, Bob Geldof and Nelson Mandela's wife, Graça Machel, will tomorrow reveal that foot-dragging by Western countries is not only derailing efforts to boost African economies, but is also in danger of reversing more than a decade of progress that has seen people being lifted out of poverty and health services and education noticeably improving.
The charity Oxfam is already calculating that 5 million people could die as a direct result.
[ The numbers in need of aid just keep on increasing the more aid they are given. Charity Multiplies Misery. And then the Third Worlders come into other nations, destroying the ethnic cohesion, causing conflict, crime, and poverty while the globalists - international financiers ,corporations, etc profit. ]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/15/internationalaidanddevelopment.development