UN chief urges more development aid

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged governments to increase development aid for the poorest countries and improve health services.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged governments to increase development aid for the poorest countries and improve health services.

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Ban says nations have moved too slow to meet their goals of eradicating poverty and hunger.

He told a UN meeting Monday that annual aid flow to Africa remains at least $20 billion below world leaders' 2005 pledge to increase foreign aid by $50 billion a year by 2010. Ban urges G-8 leaders meeting Wednesday in Italy to determine how donors will scale up aid to Africa over the next year. The latest UN report to review progress on the so-called Millennium Development Goals says the world will fail to achieve most of its targets to boost wealth, health and the quality of life in poor countries by 2015.