G-8 Summit Winds Down With Africa Aid Pledge

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 8 — As the Group of 8 summit meeting moved toward a conclusion, leaders reaffirmed a 2005 pledge of $60 billion to counter HIV and other illnesses in Africa, but did not set any new deadlines for delivering the aid.
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But critics dismissed today’s AIDS announcement, saying that little progress was actually made.

"I am exasperated," Bono, the activist rock star, told Reuters. "I think it is deliberately the language of obfuscation. It is deliberately misleading."

Collins Magalasi of ActionAids said the pledges were little more than “last-minute face saving measures,” according to Reuters.