The Irish Rock star and social activist Bono attended the African Development Summit in Yokohama in Japan. The summit was attended by more than 40 heads of the states from Africa and the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. The U2 frontman advised the African Leaders to learn from Ireland about tackling the problems of poverty and shortage of food. He appreciated Japan for its decision to double the aid to Africa in order to help the continent to fight civil war and poverty. Bono also attended and performed in the MTV Video Music Awards function in Japan on May 31 at the Saitama Super Arena.

Bono is happy that Japan has expressed its desire to help the poor and war torn country of Africa. As a guest attendee of the fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) , Bono showed his pleasure to the public one day before the African development conference was to be held in Yokohama and praised Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s doubling their efforts in eradicating poverty and famine in Africa. But the humanitarian in Bono says that this is not enough and he wishes that more can be done to help the long suffering nation. He also recommends that the Food and Agriculture Organization be helped as food supplies are running low.

The front man of the world famous U2 band, Bono, has revealed that the U2’s historic peace concert at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast was the most important event to have happened in the history of U2 so far. Bono, in a recent interview, said that he very much admired the people of Belfast for voting yes in the referendum for the peace process. He said that this gig at Belfast was featured in the headlines of most newspapers for tow or three days. David Trimble and John Hume had joined the U2 band on stage and Bono held their hands high in the air as a symbol of hope.

One of the leading members of the U2 band group and guitarist Edge has recently announced the Icons of Music Sale II that will be held on May 31^st to benefit Music Rising. This mega auction event is to be held at Hard Rock Cafe in New York Times Square and the entire range of music memorabilia and the auction is to be televised live. Julien’s Auction is playing host to this event and it is expected that many loyal U2 fans will be bidding for the U2 memorabilia.

Music Rising is a movement that is co-founded by U2’s the Edge, Gibson Guitar as Chairman, Henry Juszkiewicz and well-known produced Bob Ezrin in 2005 and was started with the sole purpose of helping the musicians along the Gulf coast region to regain their livelihood after the Hurricanes Rita and Katrina caused havocs in their lives. Aaron Neville, will be performing in the evening session at the Icons of Music Sale II and has pledged his support for Music Rising.

The Edge, U2’s guitarist extraordinaire has emerged to announce that he will be hosting the Icons of Music Auction II on the coming May 31, 2008. This auction is expected to feature some of the most sought after music collectibles ever to provide much needed help to MusicRising.org, a charitable campaign that was also co-established by The Edge himself. This organization was created with the aim to assist musicians who originate from the Gulf Coast Region to get back on their feet after the terrible Hurricane Katrina and Rita tragedies. Aaron Neville, renowned for winning the Grammy four times throughout his career, will also be doing his part to support the auction by performing at the high profile event.

Among items belonging to The Edge that are up for auction include a 1976 Gibson Explorer Guitar and a blue colored Gibson Les Paul. Bidders are also expected to take home a bass guitar belonging to Kurt Cobain, Slash’s Gibson Les Paul guitar as well as a Johnny Cash guitar.