Laptop Battery Group of Eight leaders launched their long-awaited action plan for Africa, promising a new dawn for the continent, but aid activists said the promises amounted to peanuts.
They are offering peanuts to Africa and repackaged peanuts at that. The thing that is most disappointing is that the leaders have spent the last year talking up this event as the moment they were going to deliver for Africa.-- Phil Twyford, Oxfam International
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Thinkpad Leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States issued a G8 Africa Action Plan Thursday to drive the continent's future development after meeting in this Canadian Rockies resort with four African leaders.
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Laptop Computer South African President Thabo Mbeki later told a press briefing: "All of us are very very pleased with this response of the G8."
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Desktop Computer "We need, all of us, to move with speed to implement these decisions that have been taken."
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Travelstar The G8 action plan responded to a pledge by Africans to produce clean government and strong economic policies in return for renewed investment and official state aid to battle HIV/AIDS, fight poverty and provide primary education for all.
Gateway Blair summed up the difference between old programs and this one, saying: "I think the past has been based on a very passive relationship between us giving money and them receiving it.
Laptop Parts "What we're saying is from now on that's not the deal anymore. The deal is we're equal partners in this process."
Software The African commitments are contained in a home-grown New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), drawn up by Mbeki, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade.
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Electronics "We will match their commitment with a new commitment on our own part to promote peace and security in Africa, to boost expertise and capacity, to encourage trade and direct growth-oriented investment and to provide more effective official development assistance," the G8 action plan said.
Canon G8 leaders noted that in the run-up to a major development conference, held in Monterrey, Mexico in March, they had announced new commitments boosting government aid by 12 billion dollars a year by 2006.
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Desktop Computers "Assuming strong African policy commitments, and given recent assistance trends, we believe that in aggregate half or more of our new development assistance could be directed to African nations that govern justly, invest in their own people and promote economic freedom."
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Cisco United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said Africa may be at a turning point in its history if its leaders and the Group of Eight powers can fulfill their ends of the new bargain.
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