term aid commitments that would allow poor countries to raise money on global capital markets. Blair, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the G8 grouping of wealthy countries this year, is still pushing for other nations to join in his plan after declaring 2005 a make-or-break year for plans to lift Africa out of poverty. Bush said the United States will take action next year in Tanzania, Uganda and Angola to provide malaria assistance. "America will bring this anti-malaria effort to at least four more highly endemic African countries in 2007 and at least five more in 2008. In the next five years with the approval of Congress we'll spend more than $1.2 billion on this campaign," Bush said. --More 2244 Local Time 1944 GMT
