Africa crashes rich nations' party

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Stephen Collinson | Sea Island, Georgia

Group of Eight (G8) leaders on Thursday issued a day pass for their rich nations club to counterparts from Africa, on the last day of an annual summit clouded by new transatlantic squabbles.

Often criticised as paying little more than lip service to poverty, trade woes and HIV/Aids in Africa, G8 giants were to lunch with leaders of Algeria, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda.

But South African President Thabo Mbeki lamented that his continent seemed to have been included for the fifth year in a row at the G8, as an afterthought.

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