Sarkozy calls Bono over Africa

New French President Nicolas Sarkozy phoned international rock star Bono today to discuss development aid for Africa at the forthcoming G8 summit.

Sarkozy “shares Bono’s fight” as an advocate for African development, and understands that Europe’s and Africa’s futures are linked, the president’s spokesman David Martinon said.

The French leader, who plans to meet Bono at the summit starting on Wednesday in Heiligendamm, Germany, said that “if Africa faces a crisis, it’s Europe that will be affected,” according to Martinon.

Bono, the frontman for U2, co-founded the group Debt Aids Trade Africa five years ago, to work with religious groups on global disease and hunger issues.