BOLTON // The Bolton Wanderers striker Kevin Davies has signed a new three-year contract, keeping him at the club until 2011.
"Talks have been going on since the summer, so to get it signed means that I can now concentrate on my football," Davies told Bolton's official website. "It's taken a little bit longer than myself and the club would have liked, but negotiations ran pretty smoothly on both sides. I love playing for the club and I'm settled in the town."
Davies, 31, joined Bolton in 2003 on a free transfer after he was released by Southampton after an ill-fated return to the club.
He scored just three goals last season as Bolton struggled to avoid relegation, but his physical approach to the game and work ethic has made him a favourite with the Reebok Stadium fans who voted Davies their Player of the Season last term.
Davies said the club's main priority this season is to avoid a repeat of last season's brush with relegation.
"We are all working hard to make sure it doesn't happen again and we have to try and put ourselves back in the top half of the table," he said.
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
