This week Bono (along with Jeffery Sachs) will be blogging about the Millenium Development Goals Summit for the Financial Times.

He continues to work on the issues he highlighted when he won the TED Prize in 2005.

For this week, his goals are the following:

1. Blogging for the FT, being [a] roving reporter in the canyons of Manhattan. While the world upends on Wall Street, [he]’ll be mostly midtown at the UN and the Clinton Global Initiative talking about the resilience of the world’s poor while the world’s rich find out how fragile life can be.

2. Unlock €1bn of unspent European Union Common Agricultural Policy money. This year [EU] farmers don’t qualify for it, food prices are high. African farmers desperately need it.

3. Show what’s working as well as what’s not. Bad news about Africa travels much farther than good news. There will be a historic and innovative announcement on malaria on Thursday – watch out for it. Thanks to debt relief, aid and African leadership, 29m more children are going to school.

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