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Bono has been quite busy over the past 24 hours. As we all know, he went shopping with Oprah yesterday. Then he was invited onto Air Force One for a 10 minute meeting with President Bush and his buddies Christy Turlington and Bobby Shriver to discuss the work of DATA.

This morning it was announced that he and Bob Geldof lost the Nobel Peace Prize to another worthy poverty-focused initative headed up by Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank Yunus founded.

Also this morning, he’s also been asked to help fund the FIFA World Cup along with former President Clinton too. According to The Swazi Observer:

“Mankhenkesi Stofile has advised the National Football Association (FA) to approach international organisations in order to secure funding for football squads ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

“He cited some of these organisations as the former President of the United States of America (USA) Bill Clinton’s Foundation and that of U2 Rock Group member, Bono.

“Stofile said although the two funds were established to fight poverty and HIV and AIDS prevalence in the African continent they could also be accessed for the funding of football projects as it was another way of fighting poverty.

“The minister, who arrived in the country on Tuesday, made these remarks during an official dinner which was hosted at the South African High Commissioner Mzolisi Mabude’s residence at Dalriach on Wednesday night.”

There is no word from Bono’s camp about offering funding at this time.