U2 lead singer and activist Bono has visited the Pentagon to discuss Africa and the fight against global poverty with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
Among the topics at the 20-minute meeting on this afternoon were US plans to set up a new military command for Africa.
A spokeswoman for DATA, the group co-founded by Bono to fight poverty and AIDS in Africa, said the singer had been in Washington to meet members of budget committees in Congress.
He also met with Mr Gates to discuss global poverty and the connection between fighting poverty and peace and stability.
Bono has met frequently with world leaders to push for spending on foreign aid and debt relief.
But this was his first meeting with Mr Gates, a former director of the CIA who replaced Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon in December 2006.
