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Irish singer Bob Geldof warns about climate change - Reuters

Published: Nov 29, 2009 by bini Filed under: Ethiopian News

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Irish singer and activist Bob Geldof returned to Ethiopia this week 25 years after arousing a global response to its 1984 famine and said climate change could undo progress the country had seen since then.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will represent Africa at next month’s U.N. climate change talks in Copenhagen. Meles has become the continent’s most outspoken leader on climate and blames European pollution for the 1980s disaster.

“The resilient Ethiopians I have met tell of two types of change over the last 25 years,” Geldof told Reuters by email.


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Geldof in Ethiopia to mark 25 years since famine - AFP

Published: Nov 25, 2009 by bini Filed under: Ethiopian News

KOREM, Ethiopia (AFP) – Twenty-five years after releasing a hit single to raise funds for victims of Ethiopia's infamous famine, Bob Geldof on Wednesday visited one of the then worst-affected villages in the north of the Horn of Africa country.

Dozens of children and women greeted the Irish rock star as he arrived in Korem village, some 600 kilometres (370 miles) north of the capital Addis Ababa, waving placards emblazoned: "No more deaths from hunger."


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