Africa looks set to be betrayed by rich nations at World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in December in what would be a bitterly disappointing end to 2005 - the supposed "Year for Africa" - a new report published today (November 14) by Oxfam reveals. On the same day that Prime Minister Tony Blair will make a speech on the importance of concluding the WTO talks, Oxfam's report warns that Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer in the past 25 years and sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world to have lost market share in agricultural trade.

Source: Millennium Campaign