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Chicago Tribune - June 30, 2006
Bono and fellow Irish rocker Bob Geldof have used their fame to fuel a campaign for Africa, organizing concerts last year to press leaders of rich countries at a meeting in Scotland to wipe out poverty.
"They started out to climb an Everest but over the past year they got lost at base camp," Bono told Reuters in an interview after the release of a report by his lobby group Debt AIDS Trade Africa.
"I'd like to think that the DATA report is a kind of a GPS system for how to get back on track and back up the mountain," said Bono, who formed DATA with Geldof.
The report did say that wealthy countries have delivered on their promise to cancel the debts of 19 poor countries, most of them in Africa.
"Overall, there is one cheer on debt, half a cheer on AIDS and boos and wolf whistles for what is happening on trade," Bono said.
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