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Live 8: Tinkle of broken promises

Written byLuisetta Mudie
Posted 22 September 2005 20 years ago

Ma-Schamba, a Mozambique blogger who usually writes in Portuguese, picks up on an article by George Monbiot in the Guardian saying that most of the promises made to African countries around the Live 8 concert and G8 summit have already been broken.

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