An
African Live Aid concert, designed to raise awareness of the current
famine in Africa + the threat posed by the global
AIDS pandemic, is being staged today in
Ethiopia's capital city Addis Ababa.
See here to
find out how it went!
Speaking ahead of a
UNICEF-sponsored trip to Ethiopia
Bob Geldof called on the foreign ministers due to attend the
G8 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France (between June 1st + 3rd) to use the meeting to focus on
trade, aid + debt issues which could ease the crisis in Africa.
See
Oxfam's
Make Trade Fair,
Save the Children Fund's
Hitting the 0.7% Target + The
New Economic Foundation's
The United States as a Heavily Indebted Poor Country websites for more detailed briefings on these and related topics.
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