Tony Blair is to warn it will take “hard work for years to come” to tackle poverty in Africa.

Speaking almost a year after the global series of Live 8 concerts, the prime minister will announce he has enlisted the concert organiser Bob Geldof, the Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, to a new body, the Africa Progress Panel, to monitor the progress of pledges made at last summer’s Gleneagles G8 summit.
guardian.co.uk

The ‘progress’ of Africa will of course be determined by the West…

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