" BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel, holder of the G8 presidency, said on Tuesday she would press rich nations to fulfil aid pledges to Africa made two years ago but some critics said Germany itself was a laggard.
Under Britain's presidency in 2005, the Group of Eight leading industrialised countries promised to double aid to Africa by 2010 and wipe out more than $40 billion of poor nations' debt."
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