Africa: African leaders want bigger role in IMF, push for aid

African leaders called for a bigger say in the management of the International Monetary Fund and urged rich nations to maintain aid flows as the U.S. and Europe spend billions of dollars to rescue their own economies. “The current crisis poses the greatest danger to development in recent history,” Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete told African finance ministers and central bank governors at an IMF conference in Dar es Salaam today. “So far, Africa’s voice on this unnerving situation has been muted.”