Business Action for Africa (BAA), the corporate coalition that will dominate the G8 Business Summit, declares that its aims is to 'promote a more positive, balanced view of Africa' and Africa's private sector. The 'negative' views of Africa that the BAA wishes to move away from probably includes the view that Africa is dogged by malnutrition (Nestle is one of BAA's core partners), by death squads (as funded in Nigeria by Shell, another BAA stalwart), and by civil wars in areas like Sierra Leone and DR Congo (both of which were fueled by diamond-hungry companies like De Beers, another BAA partner).