Africa population tops a billion

[ccharles000]

The number of people in Africa has passed the one billion mark, the UN Population Fund says in a report.

UNPF's Executive Director Thoraya Obeid told the BBC that the annual figures showed the continent's population had doubled in the last 27 years.

"Africa countries are all growing fast... because there is large number of women who have no access to planning their families," she said.

The populations of Nigeria and Uganda were growing the fastest, she said.

"It's an African phenomenon of a large growing population and a large percentage of young people in the population," she told the BBC's Network Africa programme.

In its State of the World Report, the UNPF says the world's population currently stands at about 6.8 billion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8366591.stm

[jwirr]

1. They are also growing fast because they are a young population.

[greennina]

2. And still the rest of the world doesn't help them.

This is prolly the greatest shame of our generation.

[liberal_at_heart]

3. I feel so sorry for the women over there

I've seen a few documentaries on healthcare workers trying to get all the adulterous husbands to at least use condoms when they cheat and use condoms when they have sex with their wives to help prevent AIDS. This is what happens when women have no control over their reproductive rights and are nothing more than property to men. If girls weren't married off at a young age and had a kid every single year maybe they could go to school and help their country get out of poverty and famine.

[Bobbieo]

4. What role did GW Bush play with the Global Gag Order - his first official act in 2000

That cut off funding for International Planned Parenthood. I always maintained it was Bush's guarantee to worldwide corporations to ensure a never ending supply of slave labor.