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| Jammeh addresses 68th UNGA (Photo Credit: UN/Amanda Voisard) |
Yahya Jammeh has
noted both substantial progress and remaining challenges for Africa’s quest to
meeting the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, 2015 when he spoke on Friday at
the UN General Assembly in New York.
In reference to the
2013 MDG report on Africa’s performance, the President of The Gambia said the
remaining challenges include the difficulty of translating economic growth into
decent job opportunities, improving service delivery and minimizing income, gender
and spatial inequalities.
The West African
country is on track to achieve the target for net enrolment in primary
education and literacy rates among those aged 15 to 24. But, the UN Development
Programme (UNDP) in the country have warned The Gambia is unlikely to meet
other goals like reducing poverty and hunger, and child deaths by half in
2015.
“Protecting
African livelihoods required international, regional and country approaches to
address both severe weather hazards and conflicts orchestrated by foreign powers,”
Jammeh told the UN on September 27.
“Mitigating the
adverse effects of climate change and putting an immediate end to the looting
of natural resources by multinational companies called for a timely and
decisive global response,” he stressed.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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