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Original Post Date: 2007-06-11 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Looks like the Marxist Bono wants more aid to Africa and is attacking the G-8 for not bringing enough aid. Most of these African nations are under control of Soviet-Russian-backed/Marxist regimes, and giving aid to these horrible regimes will only strengthen their grasp over the people they hold. Bono and his comrades in U2 want Western aid to continue, I say the only sure way to free Africa is to have Western intervention at rapid speed, setup Capitalist societies in Africa and invite white Africans back into the political environment with the rest. Giving aid to these horrible regimes will only one day have these regimes initiate a military operation against the West, to turn the West into a gulag: from MH
G-8 pledges $60B to fight AIDS, TB, malaria
By Steve Scherer
Bloomberg News
Published June 8, 2007, 11:08 AM CDT
Group of Eight leaders, reaffirming pledges to help African nations, committed themselves to give $60 billion to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
“There has been immense progress made” on Africa, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair told reporters on the final day of the G-8 summit at the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, Germany. “We have recommitted ourselves to all the commitments we made a couple of years ago at Gleneagles” in Scotland, when Blair first put the plight of Africa at the center of the G-8 agenda.
The G-8 said it was “scaling up” its efforts to ensure universal care for HIV/AIDS by 2010, a promise first made at Gleneagles. Leaders also promised to promote trade, education, peacekeeping and health care. The sum announced today includes $30 billion that President George W. Bush pledged to combat AIDS last month.
Anti-poverty and health groups gave a mixed response, while Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the summit’s host, acknowledged that some African visitors to the summit were disappointed. The G-8 statement said the money would be provided “over the coming years,” without being more specific.
“It looks like a big number, but it’s all smoke and mirrors,” Aditi Sharma, Actionaid’s international HIV/AIDS coordinator, said in an interview in Heiligendamm. “However you cut the pie, it’s far short of our needs.”
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria that will be the recipient of the donations said the money would amount to $6 billion to $8 billion annually. The G-8 agreement “makes it possible to defeat the pandemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria,” the fund said.
Actionaid, though, said there is a $10 billion annual shortfall in funding needed to provide universal HIV/AIDS care, which Blair made the cornerstone of his campaign to help Africa two years ago.
“Blair’s legacy is marred,” Sharma said.
U2 singer and activist Bono blasted the G-8’s Africa initiative for failing to follow through on promises made two years ago and puffing up the agreement with misleading language.
“They say $60 billion for AIDS, TB and malaria and it sounds great, but that’s not earmarked for Africa, it’s a global figure and there’s no timeline,” Bono said in a statement. He called the G-8 document “bureaubabble.”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, speaking after the aid package was announced, acknowledged that much remained to be done for Africa. He said he would chair a “steering group” that will focus on accelerating the aid process.
“We have far to go indeed, especially in Africa,” Ban told reporters in Heiligendamm. “New statistics show we are making progress, but far too slowly to achieve the goals in time.”
There was “on our side and Africa’s a desire for a lot more,” Blair told reporters later today. “It is in the very nature of these things that people are unhappy with the amounts and the commitments.”
Other health campaigners said the renewed commitment to HIV/AIDS care for everyone and the money pledged were vital steps in improving the lives of millions of people.
“They have not backtracked on their commitment to universal access,” Tido von Schon-Angerer, executive director of Doctors Without Borders, said in an interview in Heiligendamm. “The financial pledges — if they are made concrete — are very important.”
Merkel was praised by Actionaid and others for keeping poverty and Africa on the agenda of the world’s richest countries.
“We can say that we will mobilize an additional $60 billion in coming years,” Merkel said during the summit’s closing press conference. “However, it became clear today in our talks with African representatives that this won’t be enough.”
Earlier today, as she announced the aid package, Merkel said that “we on the G-8 side are obliged to do what we promised to do.”
Standing beside her, Ghanaian President John Kufuor told the assembled leaders: “Africa expects the G-8 to deliver.”
–With reporting by Andreas Cremer, Alexandre Deslongchamps and Robert Hutton in Heiligendamm, Germany.
Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-07…/p>