UK News 04-02-2005 who: Nelson Mandela what: Addresses Make Poverty History rally where: Trafalgar Square, LONDON when: Thursday snippet: The 86 year-old former South African leader came to town to urge the world`s wealthy nations to free Africa from poverty and has been invited by Gordon Brown to Friday`s meeting of G7 finance ministers. "From where I was standing, near the front of the crowd, his tall black form exactly filled the `I` in the `HISTORY` sign behind him," says Ann Treneman in The Times. "This seemed exactly right, for history was in the very air." Elsewhere, Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr has been having a dig at U2 frontman and active anti-poverty campaigner Bono, who joined Tony Blair in a plea for African poverty relief last week. "No matter what gesture Blair may make towards African debt relief," says Kerr, "his slippery hands are currently dripping in the fresh warm blood of Iraqi men, women and children." [... more]

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