PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has received pop singer and philanthropist Bono at the Elysee Palace in Paris for talks about poverty.
Bono met with Macron for over an hour Monday.
They discussed the U2 front man’s nongovernmental organization One.
One – its website says – takes “action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.”
Accompanied by French first lady Brigitte Macron afterward, Bono said one of the main issues in the fruitful talks was the education of girls and women in Africa.
Bono, a high-profile activist, is no stranger to the French presidential palace.
He met former Presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande.
The singer was awarded the Legion of Honor, the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, in 2003.
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