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Diamonds: Africa must get lion's share Posted: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 By Isdore Guvamombe The Herald RECENTLY, diamond producing countries, mainly in Sadc, met in Luanda, Angola, under the auspices of the newly-formed African Diamond Producers' Association...

AFRICA : G8 Has Yet to Deliver on Aid Promises - World Bank Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW, Jun 8 (IPS) - The industrialised nations of the Group of Eight are failing on the promises made in their previous summits to help Africa's economic development and...

http://www.pambazuk a.org/en/category/features/41131 The wider historical context of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade Hakim Adi (2007-05-02) Trade in African slaves underpinned the British economy in the 18th century: the rich and powerful,...

Johann Hari: The real scandal at the World Bank The Bank is killing thousands of the poorest people in the world Published: 26 April 2007 While the world's press has been fixated on the teeny-weeny scandal over whether the World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz...

"Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil" Thursday, May 17th, 2007 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/1350254 Historian and Journalist John Ghazvinian discusses his recent trip to Nigeria and the African oil boom. The U.S. now imports...

BEIJING, May 8 -- The willingness expressed by Asia's financial ministers to establish a reserve pooling is surely a necessary, albeit long-overdue, response to the financial crisis that swept across the continent a decade ago. Last Saturday, the finance...

Slain Toronto teen a 'good kid' Thu May 24, 8:11 AM The 15-year-old student gunned down in a Toronto school was a "good kid" who shared the values of his mother, a community leader in a neighbourhood reputed for violence, filmmakers who knew the boy said....