Live 8 Failed

05/16/07
. (AP) The world's biggest industrial countries are failing to keep up with financial promises they made to Africa, rocker-activist Bono said Tuesday, calling a new progress report "a cold shower" for the Group of Eight.

G-8 members in 2004-2006 contributed less than half the amount needed to make good on promises to double Africa aid to $50 billion by 2010, according to a report released by DATA � Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa � an advocacy group founded by Bono, the 47-year-old frontman for Irish band U2.[see full story for more - gee a free global concert didn't convince them? Who'd a figured] - Click here for the Full Story

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