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Bono is touring Africa to monitor the progress of his campaign for debt relief.
The U2 singer will cover Lesotho, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mali and Ghana in a 10-day trip, starting next week.
He is keen to see change after his ongoing work that culminated in some debt cancellation at the G8's summit last summer. The star also wants to see where the fight against poverty should go next, he says.
In 2002 he travelled around the continent with US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in an attempt to focus world opinion.
Jamie Drummond is executive director for Debt AIDS Trade Africa (DATA), the foundation co-founded by Bono. He said of the upcoming visit: "We're going to look at foreign assistance working on the ground in Africa and see what is working and what is not.
"Effective aid backing good African leadership can get results, so let's do more of it. Why would you not do more of it?
"The timing of this is extremely important, not just because you can see all the results on the ground, but because at this very moment top policymakers in all of the G8 countries are looking at whether they can afford to keep their promises - whether in Germany, Canada, Italy, or France, and above all in the U.S. Congress."
The U2 singer will cover Lesotho, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mali and Ghana in a 10-day trip, starting next week.
He is keen to see change after his ongoing work that culminated in some debt cancellation at the G8's summit last summer. The star also wants to see where the fight against poverty should go next, he says.
In 2002 he travelled around the continent with US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in an attempt to focus world opinion.
Jamie Drummond is executive director for Debt AIDS Trade Africa (DATA), the foundation co-founded by Bono. He said of the upcoming visit: "We're going to look at foreign assistance working on the ground in Africa and see what is working and what is not.
"Effective aid backing good African leadership can get results, so let's do more of it. Why would you not do more of it?
"The timing of this is extremely important, not just because you can see all the results on the ground, but because at this very moment top policymakers in all of the G8 countries are looking at whether they can afford to keep their promises - whether in Germany, Canada, Italy, or France, and above all in the U.S. Congress."
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