The singer then suggested that everyone call a congressman to demand more aid for Africa.
While Tony Blair's stated determination to have the G-8 meeting remain focused on the priorities he had previously set - specifically, debt relief and other aid for Africa and initiatives meant to affect global warming - is understandable, the reality is that the focus on agenda items that are unrelated to waging and prevailing in this war is a distraction we cannot afford at the moment.
That does not stop southern EU members from seeking more aid for north Africa.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced today that the G8 leaders have agreed on an aid package for Africa.
Ubuntu has also entered the language of development and fair trade - with campaigners using the word in aid projects for Africa in ways that suggest this will be an African solution for African problems.
He calculates that the US spends almost three times as much on subsidies for cotton as it does on aid for the whole of Africa and argues the harm done by unfair trade cancels out any benefits from aid.
He said that any aid G8 members might announce for Africa at the summit would "not make sense" unless poor countries could export their goods more freely.
Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.
Under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), countries will get aid and investment in return for better governance.
The predecessor of them all was Live Aid, which raised millions for the continent of Africa and was broadcast around the world in 1985.
As a result, foreign enthusiasm for Africa has been fickle and aid has become patchier because rich countries do not trust African ones to spend their money wisely.
Both for what it says about changing attitudes towards aid in Africa, as well as the more familiar chaffing that occurs when pride, philanthropy, poverty and celebrity rub up against each other.
The South African president said that the G8 had shown commitment towards Nepad, the development programme for Africa in which rich countries promise more aid and investment in return for efforts by African leaders to raise standards of government and monitor each other's performance.
That reflects reduced aid for family planning in the past 15 years and political ambivalence about cutting fertility in Africa itself.
Theodore Trefon is senior researcher at the Royal Museum for Central Africa and author of the blog Congo Masquerade: The political culture of aid inefficiency and reform failure.
Crouch's goals will aid his hopes of a place in Capello's squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but Capello suggested he may find a starting place more difficult to earn.
Take U.S. foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa in 2002, counting only projects that could build a future for the poor (infrastructure and education, for example), and you get all of 6 cents per capita.
The Islamists' movement southward has raised concerns among leaders in West Africa and elsewhere, some of them calling for swift and decisive military intervention to aid Mali's government, based in Bamako.
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