April 22, 2008

UN Head Says Africa Not on Track to Meet Development Goals

At the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Accra, Ghana, on April 21, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are not on track to meet the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce the spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by 2015, Agence France-Presse reports (afp.google.com, 4/21).

“Many countries are falling behind,” Ban said at the conference. “This region, sub-Saharan Africa, is most at risk here. Not a single country is on track to meet all the MDGs by 2015.”

According to Ban, rising food prices worldwide are making it difficult to meet the development goals by undoing gains achieved against fighting hunger and malnutrition.

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