Africa News archive
July 2005
27.07.2005
The G8 should be put under pressure until the messages on trade, aid and debt are finally heeded, says CAFOD.
more...From: CAFOD Related topics/regions: [Activism] |
21.07.2005
Less than a month after G8 leaders promised more and better aid for Africa, the international community has failed to respond adequately to the food crisis in Niger, said World Vision.
more...From: World Vision UK Related topics/regions: [Niger] [United Kingdom] [Aid] [Emergency relief] |
20.07.2005
Proposed European Union sugar reforms will hurt the poorest and most vulnerable farmers in Europe and the developing world and will not end dumping, warned Oxfam.
more...From: Oxfam Great Britain Related topics/regions: [Europe] [Agriculture] |
11.07.2005
Very small steps made on debt relief and aid for Africa will be undermined by G8 leaders failure to tackle climate change, says Friends of the Earth.
more...From: Friends of the Earth International Related topics/regions: [Aid] [Poverty] [Debt] [Climate change] |
08.07.2005
No last-minute plums were pulled out of the pudding for the G8 communiqué on Africa, but the summit was still a success, according to Simon Maxwell, director of the UKs leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian aid.
more...From: Overseas Development Institute Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Development] [Aid] [Debt] [Trade] |
08.07.2005
Disappointed at a missed opportunity, but determined to carry on with the struggle and, above all, to look within Africa for change. That is the verdict on the G8 Summit of a group of African civil society organisations.
more...From: Fahamu - Networks for Social Justice, Foreign Policy In Focus , ActionAid UK , Africa Action Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Development] [Aid] [Debt] [Trade] [Civil society] |
08.07.2005
Campaigners planning to sound a climate alarm at the G8 Summit on Thursday held a minutes silence instead in respect for the victims of Londons terrorist attacks.
more...From: Friends of the Earth Scotland Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Climate change] [Terrorism] |
06.07.2005
More than 40 million people with HIV could be at risk if the target to get universal access to drugs is struck off the G8 communiqué, as rumours suggest.
more...From: ActionAid UK Related topics/regions: [United States] [AIDS] [Politics] |
06.07.2005
African expats living in rich countries send home £110 billion a year to support their families, accounting for the second largest inflow of aid to the continent - without strings attached.
more...From: ABi Associates Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Aid] |
06.07.2005
On the eve of the G8 Summit the worlds largest anti-poverty movement demanded the leaders save millions of lives.
more...From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Poverty] [Activism] |
01.07.2005
The President of Sudan is urged to keep his June promise to release all the country's political prisoners, believed to number in the hundreds.
more...From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related topics/regions: [Sudan] [Human rights] [Politics] [Democracy] |
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