Factbox: Issues at G8-Africa talks

(Reuters) - A group of African leaders are scheduled to meet their counterparts from wealthy nations at a G8 summit in Japan next week.

Following are key elements of previous dealings between the G8 and Africa and factors likely to be discussed this time.

GLENEAGLES COMMITMENTS, 2005

After several years of increasing focus on Africa at G8 summits, G8 and African leaders made broad commitments at a summit hosted by Britain's then-prime minister, Tony Blair, including:

- African leaders to work to reduce poverty and promote economic growth; deepen transparency and good governance; strengthen democratic institutions and processes; show zero tolerance for corruption; remove all obstacles to intra-African trade; and bring about lasting peace and security across the continent.

- G8 to double aid for Africa by 2010; increase debt relief; provide extra resources for Africa's peacekeeping forces; help fight corruption and return stolen assets; help combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB and other killer diseases; improve investment climate and make trade work for Africa; work to mobilize extra investment in infrastructure; examine new financing mechanisms including air-ticket solidarity levy.

ZIMBABWE

- G8 governments, notably Britain and the United States, have generally taken a harder line than African leaders on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who won a presidential run-off vote unopposed last Friday after violence prompted the opposition candidate to withdraw. African observer groups said the electoral process fell short of free and fair standards.

- U.S. and British officials have been increasingly frustrated by South African President Thabo Mbeki's "quiet diplomacy" on Zimbabwe which is also increasingly at odds with some members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), including Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete, one of a troika of SADC leaders who called for the poll to be postponed. Kikwete and Mbeki are both invited to Japan.