Sins of omission.

Reports that Irish Africa campaigner and rock musician Bob Geldof has persuaded British Prime Minister Tony Blair to set up a commission on Africa to coincide with Great Britain's chairing of the Group of Eight industrial countries and its presidency of the European Union in 2005. Presentation of papers to the Commission by renowned economists and political scientists with the aim of compiling as hard-hitting a report as that produced by German chancellor Willy Brandt's Commission on Third World Development in 1980; Objectives of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals.