Africa still faces major challenges, despite economic progress

By : mina sabry

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Confirmed the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, that the African continent still faces significant challenges, although it has achieved economic progress over the past decade, which is best held during the last fifty years.


He said Annan, who heads the "Union for a Green Revolution in Africa", during his participation in the World Economic Forum held in Addis Ababa: Africa has seen significant progress over the past few years, and became among the fastest of the seven regions in economic growth in the world.


Annan said that the continent attracts now substantial foreign investment directly, which play a major role in promoting domestic investment, and payment of all forms of development, but said that many African countries, however, will not be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, set by the United Nations to accomplish before the year 2015.


Annan called on African governments to develop policies aimed at providing equal opportunities in the field of training and employment, to avoid discontent in the future, pointing out that he does not have to talk about economic growth, while there are millions of unemployed in the country of the African, also stressed the importance of empowering young people to promote health services and education to ensure that African development.


For its part, stressed the President of the "Foundation for the healthy development of the South African", a crescent sleep, that economic growth is not the end itself on the continent, but a means to achieve all the desired objectives of development in the continent.


She stressed that a crescent is time for African countries to play a pivotal role in the global economy, and called on governments to take the lead in the development process in their countries.


She added that there is an urgent need to enhance agricultural production in particular, to solve the continent's many problems related to lack of food, noting that the achievement of this goal requires strong leadership and decisive, so that the continent to continue its course of development.