The Financial Times has invited Bono and Jeffrey Sachs to write blogs during the week of the High-level Meeting on the Development Needs of Africa and the High-level Event on the MDGs at the United Nations in New York.
The following is a taste of what Bono wrote today:
Tough meeting with the Président de la République of France. He’s a tough guy. We like tough guys because they get straight down to business. They don’t waste their time or yours. The French budget is out this Friday and in it we will see if France intends continuing its leadership role on the continent of Africa. In the last few years, French aid has been falling.
My point was that as much as Africa needs French aid and the energy that Sarkozy himself provides, he/we need Africa. Why? Africa has never been so strategically important as it is now, economically and politically. Just ask the Chinese. Over a million of them now live in the continent of Africa – their single biggest diaspora...
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Even though we both use Google Blogger to blog on the Millennium Development Goals, I found you through a Yahoo search. Like what you are doing and want to link up with your site. One question. Seems that you started up again after a hiatus of a couple of years. What motivated you? I am interested in seeing how you assessed the recent "high level event"
Brian Dowling
aka BrianDRPM
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