Germany's President Horst Koehler called Friday for more help for Africa, saying in a news interview that Europeans sometimes took too negative a view of the continent, according to DPA. "Africa is more than just death and famine," he said. "It has a culture that has much to offer us. It has wonderful landforms and their preservation is a concern for us all." He said Africa's progress should not be overlooked. In the interview, with the Saturday issue of the provincial newspaper Schwaebischen Zeitung, he warned that poverty in Africa could come to be a burden on Europe if Africans did not obtain a better outlook. The president, whose role in Germany is mainly ceremonial, is to host a conference on Africa next week in Bonn attended by politicians, business leaders, intellectuals and journalists from both continents.
