Beyonce directs S.Africa's anti-poverty festival for Mandela

Beyonce and her husband Jay Z, photographed with their daughter Blue Ivy Carter, will head an anti-poverty music festival in Johannesburg , South Africa

Z will lead a list of celebrities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela at a festival in Johannesburg by the Global Citizen movement to eradicate poverty.

The event of December 2, to be broadcast abroad, will celebrate the end of apartheid "Global Citizen" announced Monday the arrival of Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, at the head of the poster. at the FNB stadium alongside several other stars: Chris Martin, singer of Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, English singer, Eddie Vedder, singer of Pearl Jam, Pharrell Williams, pop producer to hit, and Usher, topper of R & B [19659010]. The continent's most popular musicians including South African hip-hop producer Cbadper Nyovest and Nigerian artists Wizkid, D & # 39; banj and Femi Kuti, who is the son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti.

Global Citizen hoped the festival would raise $ 1 billion in commitments to help the world's poorest, half of whom are women and girls.

Global Citizen has been organizing festivals since 2012 at Central Park in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. support, especially among young people, for the fight against poverty. The group has since expanded overseas with seminars and music in India, Germany and elsewhere.

Hugh Evans, the founder and CEO of the movement, said he was expecting the Johannesburg festival to be the world's largest festival.

"On every path we measure the results – the number of committed citizens, the number of political results that are achieved, the number of lives that are affected by these political results – we" Unlike traditional charity gigs, Global Citizen distributes free tickets to supporters who commit to taking action such as writing their governments, "Evans told AFP

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For the Johannesburg edition, Global Citizen will also distribute tickets to people who act directly for the good, including health workers testing V or instructing mothers on infant nutrition as well as teachers and South Africans who recycle plastics.

– Mandela as a source of inspiration –

Evans says Mandela offered a model for the Cito movement World Yen through his magnanimous efforts for racial reconciliation and democracy, as well as his concern to fight poverty and global health.

Beyoncé has already been produced in South Africa in 2003 at a concert organized by Mandela to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS. Two years later, Mandela made a historic speech in Trafalgar Square, calling for concerted efforts to "make history of poverty." But Evans said the world was lagging behind the UN's Sustainable Development Goals . While Britain, Germany and the Nordic countries abide by the UN-supported goal of devoting 0.7% of gross domestic product to international aid, from the United States. other large countries are lagging behind

. In the United States, President Donald Trump has called for a one-third reduction in foreign aid, although the Congress has largely resisted his aid "America First" to humanitarian aid

"The truth is that the world is not on the right track." Global Citizen said that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and the leaders of Norway and Ghana were planning to hold talks on Tuesday. December in the honor of Mandela, born July 18, 1918.