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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Promises of aid to Africa must be kept in 2006 or millions of people will die needlessly, the top U.N. adviser on poverty said Monday while insisting that every penny must be accounted for to ensure it is used properly.
Jeffrey Sachs, who is director of the U.N. Millennium Project and special adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, called 2005 the year of promises, after the leaders of the world's wealthiest countries promised to double aid to Africa.
"2006 has to be the year of real action on the ground," Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, told The Associated Press.
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