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06/12/2004:

"Help the whole of Africa, says Mbeki"

mg.co.za

South African President Thabo Mbeki said United States assistance to Africa is too focused on individual countries and should be directed in large measure toward the continent as a whole.

Mbeki, making a stopover in Washington on Wednesday evening before heading to the Group of Eight summit at Sea Island, Georgia, cited US funding to combat HIV/Aids in Africa and a new foreign aid programme aimed at countries deemed to have effective governments.

"We want to see targeting of the entire continent," Mbeki said, alluding to the US development programmes in Africa after making the same observation about the American approach to the HIV/Aids fight on the continent. Full Article