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The food crisis is threatening to "destroy years, if not decades, of
economic progress" as "100 million people are being pushed back into
absolute poverty", according to former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.
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Africa has risen steadily in importance to the United States in recent years. Traditionally, Africa has been thought of primarily as an object of humanitarian concern. That perception has been highlighted by popular figures, such as Bono, Bob Geldof, George Clooney and others, focusing public attention on Africa's poverty, conflicts and major diseases. Africa has further captured worldwide attention due to the conflict in Darfur. Because the United States has judged the Sudanese government's campaign in the region to be genocide, the conflict has taken on enormous moral importance.
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A report released by the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF criticises the role of the IMF in managing aid inflows to Sub-Saharan Africa, but fails to address more fundamental questions about the Fund’s role in low-income countries.
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Share The World's Resources would like to express its absolute support for the Commission for Africa (CfA) report and its recommendations. The question that we address here is whether the UK government is in a position to implement the report's recommendations, many of which will entail a u-turn in current UK policies.
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There have been, and continue to be, many valuable analyses, reports and programs by the UN and other agencies, alongside calls for more aid, trade reform and debt cancellation by numerous NGOs. For the time being, the Commission for Africa's report seems to have outweighed them all.
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