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"I have few expectations of Tony Blair's Commission on Africa. We do not need another commission to look at Africa's problems," writes Yao Graham, co-ordinator of Third World Network-Africa, based in Accra, Ghana, in The Guardian UK. "The archives of the United Nations, African institutions and many other bodies are bulging with reports and proposals on how to resolve the world's north-south divide. There are many international agreements that have been frustrated by western governments and corporations. And, more importantly, African governments have come up with many demands, in forums such as the World Trade Organisation, which have been blocked by western governments, including the UK under Blair."