G8 Summit Turns it’s Attention towards Africa, Climate and Oil

Africa has never had more of the worlds attention than it does now. Partly because of the abundance of untapped resources but also because of the possibilities for more trade and new markets. With the recent rate at which China has completely changed it’s course as a nation to become an inevitable world economic superpower, all eyes are on other parts of the world that have the potential to do the same. Africa is one of them.

It’s no surprise then that at the recent G8 Summit of world leaders, Africa very much at the forefront of many discussions:

The world’s top industrialized nations face pressing financial and environmental troubles at their annual summit Monday, confronted with demands they reinvigorate the stumbling world economy, push ahead languishing climate change talks, and make good on pledges to battle poverty and hunger.

Leaders from the Group of Eight — the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Canada, Italy and Russia — began gathering in the northern Japanese resort village of Toyako on Sunday for three days of meetings among themselves and with heads of African nations and rapidly developing countries such as China.

The summit also coincides with demanding foreign policy issues such as the effort to strip North Korea of its nuclear weapons, mounting international pressure on Iran to stop its uranium enrichment program, and the threat of U.N. Security Council sanctions on Zimbabwe over its recent one-sided presidential election runoff.

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