Justice denied

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Everybody in the G8 leaders meeting are looking forward on the British Prime Minister Tony Blair as he canvasses support for increased aid and debt relief, which he called a 'real moment of opportunity' to promote democracy and growth throughout Africa. Thousands have died in communal conflict, the year 2003 elections were characterized by fraud, ballot-rigging and violence, and law enforcement agents, mostly the Nigerian police, regularly torture and kill people.

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Good bad and ugly

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The Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Gleneagles, in Scotland, would promote some of the development ideas outlined in a special British-created Commission on Africa report in March 2005. The Commission criticizes the west for failing in its existing commitments to Africa and warns that the continent is in danger of missing the goal of halving world poverty by the year 2015.

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Into Africa

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The Commission for Africa, born as a result of British commitment and G-8 push to African development, suffers from fierce internal battles over vision and contest for influence. The value of the final report of the commission expected to be published in 2005 in New York, Addis Ababa and London after a year's work is discussed.

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