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Bono to address Labour conference
Bono, lead singer with the Irish rock band U2, is to take centre stage at the Labour Party conference on Wednesday.
The star and global campaigner will call for action to combat the spread of Aids and ease Africa's burden of debt.
Bono has praised the government's decision to increase its contribution to the global fight against HIV/Aids.
His speech will take in the work of his Debt, Aids, Trade Africa (Data) organisation as well as his backing for a campaign called Make Poverty History.
Bono is the latest in a string of high-profile speakers from around the world to address the annual gathering in recent years, following on from Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai.
The singer has been a long-time campaigner on the need to fight the spectre of Aids in Africa and recently spoke at both the Republican and Democrat party conventions in the US.
He has also been instrumental in the Drop The Debt campaign, which wiped out millions of pounds of international debt owed by Third World governments.
His campaigning work - which he fits in alongside a busy rock career that sees his band release their 14th album in November - has led to calls from several quarters for him to be considered for a Nobel Prize for humanitarianism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3699234.stm
Thanks to Barry and Chris!
Bono, lead singer with the Irish rock band U2, is to take centre stage at the Labour Party conference on Wednesday.
The star and global campaigner will call for action to combat the spread of Aids and ease Africa's burden of debt.
Bono has praised the government's decision to increase its contribution to the global fight against HIV/Aids.
His speech will take in the work of his Debt, Aids, Trade Africa (Data) organisation as well as his backing for a campaign called Make Poverty History.
Bono is the latest in a string of high-profile speakers from around the world to address the annual gathering in recent years, following on from Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai.
The singer has been a long-time campaigner on the need to fight the spectre of Aids in Africa and recently spoke at both the Republican and Democrat party conventions in the US.
He has also been instrumental in the Drop The Debt campaign, which wiped out millions of pounds of international debt owed by Third World governments.
His campaigning work - which he fits in alongside a busy rock career that sees his band release their 14th album in November - has led to calls from several quarters for him to be considered for a Nobel Prize for humanitarianism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3699234.stm
Thanks to Barry and Chris!
