Delivery dates:
The completed 120 minute music documentary will be available for broadcasting worldwide from 1 July 2005.
A DVD of the 120 minute music documentary, incorporating the half-hour anti-malaria education film, will be available by the autumn.
4 one-hour concert programmes, directed by Martin Meissonnier, will also be available by 1 July 2005.
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The Roll Back Malaria Concert, a two days music event featuring 20 top African artists led by Youssou N'Dour and including established stars such as Baaba Maal, Salif Keita, Orchestra Baobab, Manu Dibango, Ali Farka Touré, Khaled and Corneille as well as a rising young African talents. The event reached an estimated 40 000 spectators and an additional audience of one billion wordwide via television, DVD, radio and CD, celebrating the continent's creative energy and bringing a message of empowerment and hope for tackling its major scourge: malaria.
"This concert will reach hundreds of millions of people, sharing the vitality of African music and inspiring them to imagine the heights to which our nations can rise if we can beat malaria. And we can beat it: we have the tools, we have the knowledge. All we need is for the world to come together to come together to make it happen, " said Youssou N'Dour, the creative force behind the event, which will also see the premiere of a global "anti-malaria anthem".
cultureetloisirs.france3.fr/musique/actu/8979630-fr.php
www.rbm.who.int/rbm/Attachment/20050204/2005youssou_concert.htm
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