ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews separately Africa and terrorism and non-proliferation, to assess the G8 summits' performance in these areas. The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) proposals, which covered peace-keeping, political governance and economic development, differed from all previous African approaches to the revival of their continent. The governance elements of the NEPAD process continued to advance, driven by a nucleus of committed countries. Terrorist finance was delegated to the finance ministers; transport measures never needed more than summit endorsement on the nod; and capacity-building soon went off the heads' agenda. The Global Partnership, a major initiative from Kananaskis, built on work endorsed by earlier G7 and G8 summits to counter nuclear smuggling, especially of plutonium, out of the former Soviet Union. The Africa programme had early problems of acceptability, because it seemed to be limited to exclusive groups of G8 and African leaders, who imposed decisions from the top.
