UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged G8 leaders to live up to their promises to double aid for Africa to 50 billion dollars by 2010.
He made the statement on the sidelines of this year's G8 summit which started on the Japanese island of Hokkaido on Monday. The summit's agenda is topped by surging oil and food prices as well as climate change. However, world leaders also used their get-together to discuss more sanctions against Zimbabwe after President Robert Mugabe was re-elected in disputed elections last month. US President George W. Bush called the one-man poll that was boycotted by the opposition a sham, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel called it illegitimate and Live - South Africa v Wales ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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