(February 2, 2005) Development groups are calling on the Bush administration to support full, unconditional, and immediate debt relief for more than three dozen of the world’s poorest nations.

(February 2, 2005) Both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have taken a big political risk in setting an ambitious programme on Africa – and will certainly struggle to disguise any failure to make progress in 2005.

(February 2, 2005) Petitions delivered to the US Treasury Department Tuesday called on Group of Seven nations to take action this weekend to cancel debts of the poorest countries.

(January 30, 2005) US likely to block Britain’s ‘Marshall Plan for Africa’ at G7 summit.

(January 28, 2005) Building a stronghold of democracies, defining a big-stick policy and making the doctrine of odious an international law should help lay the foundations of a democratic alliance able to stabilize a democratic world order.

(January 14, 2005) Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Seychelles granted relief.

(January 13, 2005) The decision by the Paris Club of 19 creditor nations to offer a freeze on interest payments to Tsunami-affected nations could raise more questions than it answers.

(January 10, 2005) As we reach out to those struggling to recover from a natural disaster, our country has an important opportunity to address one of the core issues contributing to the impoverishment of the tsunami-stricken nations: huge foreign debts.

(January 7, 2005) Chancellor Gordon Brown has said he hopes to announce a deal soon to suspend debt interest repayments by tsunami-hit nations.

(January 7, 2005) The Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations have agreed to an immediate moratorium on debt interest repayments by countries hit in the Boxing Day tsunami disaster.

(January 7, 2005) Group of Seven finance ministers have struck an agreement to suspend tsunami-afflicted nations’ debt repayments, they said in a statement on Friday.

(January 7, 2005) UK’s Gordon Brown gets industrialised countries to agree to freeze repayments.