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Britain Calls for Massive Aid for Africa

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From: AP Online
Date: 20050106
Author:ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer

ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-06-2005
Dateline: LONDON

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown begins his speech in Edinburgh on world poverty Thursday Jan. 6, 2005. Brown called for an aid and debt relief program, modeled on the postwar Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe, to assist the world's poorest nations. Brown said debt relief was needed urgently to help Asian countries affected by the tsunami recover and some of the world's poorest countries in Africa. (AP Photo/PA, David Cheskin)

Britain's treasury chief on Thursday called for half a trillion dollars ...

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