Many say that the vast earnings of many African countries from oil, gas and mining show that the focus on aid to Africa is misguided.
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron says G8 leaders should be inspired by Northern Ireland when the summit delivers its own economic breakthrough.
From the Conference of Berlin to today’s G8, "helping" Africans looks suspiciously like monopolising their resources, writes George Monbiot.
Europe’s leaders met on Wednesday for crisis talks to rescue the euro amid a warning from the West’s leading economic think-tank.
With the backing of the G8 and the private sector, smallholder farming will take Africa forward, writes Jane Karuku.
President Barack Obama is likely to press German Chancellor Angela Merkel to support a growth package to bail out Europe at the G8 summit this weekend
Aid being compiled in Deauville aims to foster democracy and economic growth in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia.
The Libyan regime has rejected calls from the G8 world powers for strongman Muammar Gaddafi to step down and will only deal with the African Union.
Leaders of the world’s richest nations have gathered for a summit to be dominated by the Arab Spring, the economy, and Japan nuclear disaster.
Questions are being asked whether the G8 invitation to African states to its summit reflects its concern about the litany of unmet promises.
Civil society organisations make a fresh appeal for G8 to fulfil its Aids promises.
Like previous summits, the G8 summit in Italy this week was tinged by the host’s culture and personal taste.
When the United Nations meets this week to discuss the Millennium Development Goals maternal mortality will be high on the agenda.
The G8 was not created because countries liked each other but because of the world’s economic problems, says Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says talks to end seven years of tortuous global trade negotiations were ”at a minute to midnight”.
The response of the big developing countries showed, however, that the verbal gymnastics were not entirely convincing.
After discussing famine in Africa, the peckish politicians and five spouses took on four bite-size amuse-bouches to tickle their palates.
It has been more than a year since Shinzo Abe stood outside the Windsor Hotel, gazed at the lake below and, as one official said, ”fell in love”.
The Africa Progress Panel, chaired by Kofi Annan, on Monday demanded international action to deal with the urgent threat of world food prices.