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Simon Fuller bids for LA music publisher Bug Music Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:34 AM PDT
Bug, which is owned by Spectrum Private Equity, is expected to fetch bids starting around US$300 million (RM895 million), according to the person. Fuller's (picture) XIX Entertainment, BMG Music and Ole Music are among second-round bidders for the publisher whose 250,000-strong catalogue of songs includes Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" and the Drifters hit "Under the Boardwalk". Final bids are due by Friday. — Reuters |
Bono and N’Dour to hold famine concert in Kenya Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:31 AM PDT Bono and N'Dour have previously campaigned together at the G8 for debt relief and against HIV/AIDS and malaria. — Reuters file pic "We are launching an initiative called New Africa, including African countries and friends of Africa, starting with the ideas of the youth," N'Dour told a news conference today, a day after visiting the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya. "The youth are the future of our continent," he said. Dadaab in northern Kenya is home to some 427,000 Somali refugees fleeing famine and war. Hundreds of Somalis are dying each day with 750,000 facing imminent starvation, the United Nations said on Monday. N'Dour said he will hold a competition for young people to design a "solidarity torch" which will tour the world from September until February. As part of the relay, there will be events in each participating country to support the campaign, including the African Nations Cup soccer tournament to be held in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in 2012. Bono and N'Dour have previously campaigned together at the G8 for debt relief and against HIV/AIDS and malaria. "(Bono) called me to tell me ... 'You can count on me because I'm a friend of Africa and I'm going to support you completely'," said N'Dour. HOPE AMID SUFFERING N'Dour during his visit to the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya yesterday. — rnw.nl pic His father described how the family had walked for 15 days to escape "drought, famine and insecurity" in Somalia's Lower Juba region. The arduous trek killed two of his seven children. Despite such suffering, N'Dour said he saw hope in Dadaab when he visited Illeys Primary School, where many of the dusty-faced young refugees were learning in tents or under trees. "I saw children who spoke, who sang, who smiled and who only wanted one thing: to be like other children," he said. The number of pupils in the school has surged to 4,039 from 2,500 since January due to an influx of refugees from famine-stricken Somalia. Many had never set foot inside a school before. "We have learners coming armed with knives, small boys of eight or 11," said Henry Waitindi, an education officer with the charity Care International. Only 38 per cent of children in the camp attend school, with classes of up to 150 pupils. Generations of young Somalis are growing up in Dadaab, which was set up in 1991, without the right to work or leave the sprawling desert camp. Some are recruited to join militias back in Somalia. "I prayed to God that those children would not stay in the camp for another 20 years," said N'Dour. "These young people must have a future." African leaders meeting in Nairobi this week to discuss the Horn of Africa's food crisis have a "historic responsibility" to ensure Africa never experiences another famine, N'Dour said. "The problem is not money. It's strategy. It's vision," he said. — Reuters |
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