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Africa is the continent where hunger is increasing.

This is one of the UN's goals for sustainable development: to eradicate world hunger by 2030. It will not be achieved. It is now a security. According to the UN, malnutrition and hunger, largely driven by the pandemic and economic crisis, increased further in 2020. Chronic hunger now affects almost 10% of the world's population. Asia is the first to be affected, but the trend is particularly worrying…

Africa remains to be the continent the place journalists

This is very the case in North Africa. In Algeria and Morocco, press freedom continues to be hampered, whereas in Libya it is amazingly troublesome to follow the occupation. Convictions of journalists, blockages of on-line media, adoption of legal guidelines to prohibit freedom of knowledge ... Algeria is within the eyes of…

a plague on the economies of the African continent

Corruption, smuggling, tax evasion ... Capital flight would represent $ 88 billion a year in lost earnings for the continent. An estimate from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Unctad. According to the UN, the capital flight on the continent would represent $ 88 billion, but since this is illegal practice, it is an estimate. A rather low estimate even indicates Unctad. These $ 88 billion lost to African countries more or less represent what the continent receives each year if we add official…

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