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Wide shot of British Prime Minister Tony Blair walking towards podium2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\"Africa has been a prime example of a foreign policy that has been avowedly interventionist. I believe in...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide shot of British Prime Minister Tony Blair walking towards podium\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Africa has been a prime example of a foreign policy that has been avowedly interventionist. I believe in the power of political action to make the world better and the moral obligation to use it. I do not believe that in this time, the early twenty-first century, international politics can be just about nation's interests, narrowly and traditionally defined.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway of press at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I believe that now, today, our self interest is in substantial part defined by the well being of others. The consequence of globalisation is that our best chance of security and prosperity lies in advancing freedom, opportunity and justice for all. It follows that where oppression, poverty and injustice exist, it is not only our duty but also in our self interest to do what we can to bring about change for the better. And I believe that nowhere is that clearer than here in Africa.\" \u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway of press at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e6.SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"African conflict creates millions of refugees in search of a better life, African poverty deprives this continent and millions of people of the chance to succeed and deprives us in countries like mine of successful and stable partners for economic growth and the benign exploitation of commodities and natural resources. Failed or struggling African states are breeding grounds for the very extremism that threatens us everywhere and yet African peaceful co-existence between Muslim and Christian shows how different and better the world can be.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7.  Wide of Blair at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e8.SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I believe it is wrong that President Bashir, intent I'm afraid on bombing his way to a solution, is determined to obstruct any effort made to reinforce the Africa Union's inability to improve security and stability. I believe we have to offer President Bashir a choice: engage with us on a solution, or if you reject responsibility for the people of Darfur then we will table and put to a vote sanctions against the regime.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Zoom into Blair at news conference\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"African governments should also hold other African governments to account. In Zimbabwe decades of repression have forced up to one third of the country to flee, life expectancy has dropped from 60 in 1990 to 37 today, less than Sierra Leone, incidentally, South Africa's economy loses 3 percent of GDP thanks to Zimbabwe's economic meltdown. Now I welcome the determination of the countries of southern Africa to tackle Zimbabwe's problems through the SADC (Southern African Development Community) and President Mbeki's leadership to bring the two countries leadership together. The world is waiting, wanting to engage with a reforming Zimbabwe government. We support therefore SADC's efforts to develop a clear plan but for the people of Zimbabwe this is urgent and change before the 2008 elections essential.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Blair leaving podium\u003cbr/\u003eIn a speech at a university in South Africa, during the final leg of his farewell tour of Africa, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the world was waiting for reform in Zimbabwe. \u003cbr/\u003eBlair said he welcomed \"the determination of the countries of southern Africa to tackle Zimbabwe's problems\" through the work of the Southern African Development Community.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The world is waiting, wanting to engage with a reforming Zimbabwe government. We support therefore SADC's efforts to develop a clear plan but for the people of Zimbabwe this is urgent and change before the 2008 elections essential,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eBlair, who had flown in from Sierra Leone, delivered what's been described as an important policy statement at the University of South Africa.\u003cbr/\u003eHe also planned to visit the nation's biggest hospital in Johannesburg.\u003cbr/\u003eBlair called for tougher action against Sudan over the killings in Darfur on Thursday, accusing its president of \"bombing his way to a solution.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIn a speech at the University of South Africa near Johannesburg, Blair singled out the crisis in Darfur, which has killed an estimated 200,000 people, left 4 million dependent on food aid and sent more than 230,000 fleeing.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I believe it is wrong that President Bashir, intent I'm afraid on bombing his way to a solution, is determined to obstruct any effort made to reinforce the Africa Union's inability to improve security and stability,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have to offer President Bashir a choice: engage with us on a solution, or if you reject responsibility for the people of Darfur then we will table and put to a vote sanctions against the regime,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eAfrica has always been high on Blair's foreign policy agenda. \u003cbr/\u003eHe used his speech to call on the international community, through the Group of Eight industrialised nations to continue to encourage the economic development of the continent of Africa, and told news conference countries must work together for Africa.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I believe in the power of political action to make the world better and the moral obligation to use it. I do not believe that in this time, the early twenty-first century, international politics can be just about nation's interests, narrowly and traditionally defined,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said countries like the UK must be stable partners for growth in the region. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Failed or struggling African states are breeding grounds for the very extremism that threatens us everywhere and yet African peaceful co-existence between Muslim and Christian shows how different and better the world can be,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003eDuring his tenure as prime minister, Blair tried to raise the profile of Africa, the world's most impoverished and strife-ridden continent, and urged international efforts on aid and debt-relief programmes. \u003cbr/\u003eHe has won praise from some African leaders, but others say Britain and other Western countries have not fulfilled promises to lift them out of their poverty.\u003cbr/\u003eHe was later expected to meet former South African President 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