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AFRICA AND THE GLENEAGLES G8 SUMMIT

No one major international conference in recent times had been so eagerly expected, none whose discussions had been so well anticipated, whose outcome so eagerly awaited, as was the G8 Summit held at the Scottish town of  Gleneagles in July 2005.     read more >>

THE GLENEAGLES IN CONTEXT

A SUMMIT FOR AFRICA : The G8 Leaders Deliberate

In early 2004 Mr Blair's government had established the Africa Commission which had, among other important things, called for no less than total debt cancellation for the poor nations of Africa.      read more >>

REACTION

THE ROYAL AFRICAN SOCIETY
- What About The Damage We Do To Africa

The Royal African Society in Londonproduced a paper commenting on the Commission for AfricaReport titled, "A Message to World Leaders: What About the Damage We Do to Africa?". Below we print two                                                                                  excerpts.       read more >>

Susan E. Rice in YALE GLOBAL ONLINE

"Africa After the Music Stops"

An extract from a paper, "Africa After the Music Stops," commenting on the G8 Gleneagles summit,  by Susan E. Rice in Yale Global Online.

Despite President Bush's compelling rhetoric the week before Gleneagles on the importance to US national security of poverty reduction in Africa, the US contributed little to the summit's positive outcomes.    read more >>