Photograph: Ethiopialives.net
If there's anyone reading this who doesn't yet know why next month's G8 summit is so important, I recommend they read 10 Babies, 10 Lives, a remarkable piece of journalism published today in the Guardian and here on the website. Over the next 10 years, we're going be telling the story of Africa by charting the lives of 10 babies born this year in different African countries.
Will the world keep its promises to them? The west is already too late for one of the babies, Sijjin Kuang, who died while we were researching the article. He was just seven days old.
Also on the site today is Jeevan Vasagar's account of his visit Addis Ababa to see how G8's decisions affect people's lives. He details how a lack of clean water and sanitation is a matter of life and death. Read his feature here, and browse his photo journal and pen portraits of Ethiopians.
The everyday lives of Ethiopians are also the subject of Ethiopia Lives, a new site co-ordinated by Cafod and launched yesterday. For the next six months, the contributors will upload photographs, audio clips and blog posts to the site. The photographs are extraordinary.
