The terrorist attacks in London have displaced attention from the cause of Africa, but the decisions taken by the leaders of the G8, meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, from 6 to 8 July, “will not make poverty become past history”. With this assertion that echoes, in a negative key, the motto of the anti-poverty campaign (Make Poverty History), Charles Abugre, representative of the British NGO Christian Aid, expressed all the disappointment of his organization and others. The agreement reached by the leaders of the G8 to double aid for Africa by 2010 was found wholly inadequate. The policies on debt said Abugre “did not even begin to approach what had been requested by the African Union”. A similar reaction to the Gleneagles summit has been expressed by the British Catholic aid organization CAFOD. “The promise to halve poverty by 2015 was not kept said George Gelber of CAFOD -. It is inconceivable that the richest nations cannot find the necessary funds to put an end to the cycle of poverty”. According to the Council of the Churches in Sudan, one of the causes of the meagre results of Gleneagles is to be identified in the terror attacks in London.
