Britain’s Simon Wakefield chipped in at the last hole to grab a share of the Johnnie Walker Championship third-round lead alongside Swede Fredrik Andersson-Hed on Saturday. The pair were a stroke in front of 2006 European rookie of the year Marc Warren of Britain (73).
Group of Eight (G8) leaders have agreed to boost development aid to Africa by -billion as part of a package to fight poverty in Africa, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday at the end of the three-day G8 summit in Gleneagles.
As Britain reeled with shock following Thursday’s bomb attacks in London, campaigners feared that the Group of Eight’s (G8) lofty ambitions on Africa and Earth’s climate would be pushed aside amid the outpouring of grief. Campaigners fear that their causes now face being dispatched back to the wilderness.
The world’s most powerful leaders got down to talks at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, on Thursday on aid to Africa and climate change, but the summit was brutally overshadowed by a series of explosions that hit London.
After years of dithering, leaders of the world’s most powerful countries face a moment of truth on Wednesday when they open a three-day summit under mounting pressure to take concrete action against Africa’s pervasive poverty.
Britain is painting a misleadingly flattering picture of its commitments to do more in the fight against poverty in Africa, a leading development group said on Tuesday. ”The British government is very good at PR, at spinning what really is going on,” said Peter Hardstaff from the World Development Movement.
Leaders of the world’s eight richest and most powerful nations converge on a heavily-guarded luxury Scottish golf resort on Wednesday, facing the daunting twin challenges of pulling Africa out of dire poverty and slamming the brakes on global warming.