The G8, Africa, and NEPAD: Self-proclaimed Success

Article no: EN20070429-Article-3.1-2007

The G8, Africa, and NEPAD: Self-proclaimed Success

Since the beginning of this century the G8 started to cultivate a special intimate relationship to representatives of a ?new Africa? in response to their courting. Not by accident, Angela Merkel announced for the forthcoming summit in Heiligendamm at the Baltic Sea that the further expansion of this link into ?reform partnerships? would officially rank among the priorities on the agenda. That does however not necessarily mean that this will indeed happen. A critical appraisal by Henning Melber.