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Leaders from Group of Eight rich nations said today they are committed to achieve their aid target for Africa, pledged at their Gleneagles summit in 2005. At that summit, G8 nations had vowed to raise annual aid levels by $50 billion by 2010, $25 billion of which was for Africa. This was reiterated at last year's summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. But aid workers and NGOs had expressed concern about the pledge, saying donor countries might fail to meet their promises, which are not legally binding and are hard to track in actual spending. "We are firmly committed to working to fulfil our commitments on ODA made in Gleneagles, and reaffirmed at Heiligendamm, including increasing, compared to 2004, with other donors, ODA to Africa by $25 billion a year by 2010," the G8 said in a statement on Development and Africa, referring to... [read full story]
