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Bono arrives for G8

Tinker Tom | 07.07.2008 09:23

And the cover-up begins

Bono arrives
Bono arrives


The annual summit of the G8 industrialised nations has opened in Japan with the issue of aid for Africa taking centre-stage on the first day.

The G8, with Bono as publicity man, agreed at its 2005 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, to double aid to Africa to $25bn a year by 2010 as part of a wider drive to alleviate global poverty.

Bono and Geldoff told the protesters to go home as they had the matter in hand.

Now activists have accused the G8 countries of backtracking on those commitments.

UN and African Union figures indicate that less than $3bn of the peldged $25 has been forthcoming.

Tinker Tom
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