Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Covers ONE’s Panel

Sep 24th, 2009 3:00 PM UTC
By Virginia Simmons

Today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette devoted almost a full page to ONE, CGD and the University of Pittsburgh’s panel yesterday.

Below are some excerpts:

“It shouldn’t be a summit to address only the completion of a global economic stimulus. It should also be about some of the issues that have caused us a lot of disappointment and frustration in Africa,” said Donald Kaberuka, president of the African Development Bank.

For David Lane, the president of the international advocacy group the ONE Campaign, which is committed to fighting extreme global poverty and disease, tackling the problems of Africa should start with the premise that Africa can be part of the solution to the global financial crisis.

“There are pragmatic reasons for the leaders of the world gathered here to include Africa in the dialogue,” said Mr. Lane.For example, Africa can be a key economic player because it has almost 1 billion producers and consumers of goods and services, he said. “People are so used to seeing the hardships of Africa that they often don’t consider the positive things happening there,” said Mr. Lane.

His organization, which was co-founded by U2 lead singer Bono in 2004, is calling on the G-20 to hold an upcoming summit in Africa as “a first step in showing that Africa is part of the solution to our global problems.”

You can read the full article here.

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