Oxfam raps rich nations over aid
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Wealthy countries need to do much more to fight global poverty, the international aid agency Oxfam says.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged rich nations on Thursday to keep their promises of financial aid to Africa, saying failure to do so could threaten the continent's progress towards prosperity and democracy.
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday appealed for &#36;576.1 million to help millions of children in countries in crisis, ranging from Sudan to Ethiopia and Angola.
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International assistance to the Palestinians will not be effective unless Israel eases travel restrictions that have stalled some aid projects and sent the costs of others soaring, Oxfam International warned on the eve of a donors' conference.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's richest charity, joined with the Rockefeller Foundation yesterday to launch a new development initiative for sub-Saharan Africa that they said would revolutionize food production and reduce hunger and poverty for tens of millions of people.
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Rich nations pledged $200 million to fight diseases in poor countries on Wednesday, promising to slash the time it takes to get new vaccines to needy children and save more than a million lives a year.
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With Africa lagging behind in  global development goals and rich countries cutting aid,  leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on  Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme  poverty on the continent.
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More than 100 countries have endorsed a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion (28 billion pounds) a year in development aid to combat global hunger, but the
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The United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) on Wednesday appealed for $576.1 million to help  millions of children in countries in crisis, ranging from Sudan  to Ethiopia and Angola.
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Rich nations need to increase their funding to poor countries if they are to meet aid commitments a report says.
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Getting the world&#39;s richest nations to hand over promised aid for Africa is like &quot;getting blood out of a stone,&quot; rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof found at the Group of Eight summit on Wednesday.
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The amount of aid rich countries give to poorer nations has fallen by half since the 1960s, risking the lives of millions of children, a leading development charity said in a report released Monday.
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A global emergency fund set up to get aid to disaster zones more quickly has received "exceptionally poor support" from some of the richest donors, aid agency Oxfam said on Friday.
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The aid charity Oxfam blasted talks on the Middle East crisis between US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as more &quot;hand-wringing&quot; in the face of a rising death toll.
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The United Nations appealed to  the world's prosperous nations on Thursday for $3.9 billion in  donations next year to address humanitarian emergencies  touching 27 million people in 29 countries, with most of the  money targeted at Africa.
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Rock star Bono pressed French leader Nicolas Sarkozy to increase aid to developing nations, the aid advocacy group DATA said.
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South African icon Nelson Mandela challenged leaders of rich nations on Thursday to ease the plight of the poor by slashing debt, boosting aid and making world trade fairer.