Bono urges Japanese leader to fight poverty

Rock star and anti-poverty activist Bono today urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to keep his nation’s pledge to boost aid to Africa and other parts of the developing world.

Bono urges Japanese leader to fight poverty

Rock star and anti-poverty activist Bono today urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to keep his nation’s pledge to boost aid to Africa and other parts of the developing world.

“Some countries make promises and they don’t keep them. Japan, we trust to fulfil their promise,” Bono, in Japan on his U2’s Vertigo 2006 tour, told reporters after meeting with Abe.

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