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Reversing Decades of Decline the Commission for Africa Says the Continent Must Forge Its Own Path to Prosperity and Peace. But It Will Only Get There with Support From the Developed World. By Joan Mcalpine

Only one region of the world became poorer in the last 30 years. Africa may be a hugely diverse continent which contributes immeasurably to global culture. But half its people live on less than Dollars1 a day and life expectancy is falling. The colonial legacy is partly to blame.

The Big Beasts Come to Town the G8 Is a Forum for World Leaders to Have an Honest Talk About Problems of Our Age.But Will It Solve Anything? By Alison Rowat

There is little danger of confusing the glens of Perthshire with the African savannah, even in the midst of that freak meteorological occurrence known as a Scottish heatwave. That will change when the sheep and golfers who usually pace the lands round Gleneagles are nudged aside by heads of state and government. The big beasts are making their way to the watering hole and the landscape may never seem quite the same again.

Tanzania Is Fighting to Educate Itself Out of the Poverty Trap. But Free Schooling for All Costs Money, so Its Success Will Depend On G8 Help

The girl on the wooden chair is so petite she nearly disappears behind the headmaster's desk. She is composed but it takes some coaxing from her maths teacher, Gaspar Makunda, before she will speak.

The Long Walk for Water Feyorie, Wedrasie and Alem Trek 15 Miles Every Day to Collect Contaminated Water for Their Family. They Are Just Three of a Billion People for Whom Clean, Accessible Water Is a Distant Dream. Words: Michael Tierney Pictures: Chris James

Feyorie Tekle Weldegesus adjusts her pink plastic sandals for the 15-mile round trip for water. The soles of her feet are cracked and blistered. Feyorie, 13, is a child of climate change and drought. Beside her, in a charity-shop dress and similar sandals, is six- year-old Wedrasie, her sister. With the help of their 11-year-old brother, Alem, they fit the first of their family's two small donkeys with a jerba - a water-bag made of tent canvas or inner tube. Feyorie ushers her siblings to pic...

'I Was Faithful. My Husband Was Not' After Elisabeth Sangu Was Diagnosed with Hiv She Was Treated Like an Outcast in Her Own Community.How Did She Put Her Life Back Together? Words: Rebecca Mcquillan Pictures: Simon Murphy

Elisabeth Sangu and her husband Deodatus sit just a few centimetres apart on the dusty lino floor of their home in a poor suburb of Dar es Salaam, but a gulf of experience divides them. It is 18 months since Elisabeth, 38, was diagnosed with HIV, but the rejection she experienced at the hands of her husband's family is still apparent in the pinched lines on her forehead and the tremor in her voice. "I endured a lot of problems with my in-laws, " she says stiffly, shifting her slumbering two-y...

Is This the End of the World As We Know It?The Earth Is in Flux. But Global Efforts Could Temper the Chaos Ahead. By Vicky Collins

Lieutenant Nicolas Raffalli walks past the memorial to lost firefighters every day, yet still he pauses for a moment to look at the list of the four who died in 2003. "He was on my team, " he says quietly, pointing at one of the names.

Clean Energy: Turning On the Tide the Orkney Isles Have Plugged in to the Future with a Base for Marine Power Companies

Four yellow buoys in the sea and a small grey building on the coastline are the only visible signs that there is anything new happening at Black Craig in the Orkney Isles. Yet beneath the surface, major changes have occurred. The building is a substation and from there four cables extend one mile out under the sea. They end in four separate "berths" where new and innovative devices for converting the energy of the waves into electricity can be put to the test.

Clean Businesses

Major global companies are embracing environmentally friendly policies and signing up to agreements to reduce energy usage. The following are some examples of businesses that are leading the way: USDupont The scientific solutions company helped address ozone- layer depletion by developing successful alternatives to CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and was one of the first to record its greenhouse gas emissions (GGEs).

Building the Path to Peace Fear Still Stalks the Middle East, so the Region Is Once More On the Agenda for the G8 Summit. But the Appetite for Democracy Suggests Tentative Signs of Progress. By Alf Young

The Middle East represents, in microcosm, many of the most awkward challenges facing global diplomacy. Since 1945, the region has witnessed persistent interstate conflicts - from the attacks on the fledgling state of Israel in 1948, through the Suez crisis of 1956, the six-day war Israel launched in 1967 and the renewal of hostilities by its neighbours in 1973, the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s, the occupation of Kuwait which precipitated the first gulf war in 1990, to the...