Africa Not Progressing on MDGs - UN
The United Nations (UN) and its agencies will use the 2010 World Cup to highlight Africa's slow progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of halving poverty by 2015.
UN under-secretary-general for communications and public information, Kiyo Akasaka, says that the UN is concerned that sub-Saharan countries are significantly behind schedule in realising some of the key development goals agreed to by more than 189 countries in Johannesburg in 2000.
Akasaka states that Africa is not alone in allowing the goals to slip out of reach, as internationally there is mixed progress. He says that the global financial crisis had brought new difficulties that threatened the global effort to halve extreme poverty, hunger, disease, maternal and child deaths and other ills defined by the goals.
To read the article titled, “UN to focus on Africa's slow progress on millennium goals,” click here.
UN under-secretary-general for communications and public information, Kiyo Akasaka, says that the UN is concerned that sub-Saharan countries are significantly behind schedule in realising some of the key development goals agreed to by more than 189 countries in Johannesburg in 2000.
Akasaka states that Africa is not alone in allowing the goals to slip out of reach, as internationally there is mixed progress. He says that the global financial crisis had brought new difficulties that threatened the global effort to halve extreme poverty, hunger, disease, maternal and child deaths and other ills defined by the goals.
To read the article titled, “UN to focus on Africa's slow progress on millennium goals,” click here.
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