Brazzaville, Congo, 02 March 2020 (ECA) - Can African countries still achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030? About nine out of ten extremely poor people in the world currently live in Africa, and ECA warns that COVID19 will push an additional 5 to 29 million below the extreme poverty line. If the impact of the pandemic is not limited by 2021, an additional 59 million people could suffer the same fate, which would bring the total number of extremely poor Africans to 514 million people. Africa continues to experience disparities in universal access to energy, electricity and even clean fuels and technologies for cooking. In addition, Africa has lost an average of 3.9 million hectares of forest per year between 2010 and 2020 due to population growth, poverty and agricultural expansion.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 03, 2021 00:22 UTC