Sunday, October 25, 2009

Wake-Up Call As Population Of Africa Tops 1bn


From The Scotsman:

ONE day this year, in all probability, the billionth African will have been born, a milestone that will benefit the poorest continent only if it can get its act together and unify its piecemeal markets.

Nobody knows when or where in its 53 countries the child arrived to push Africa's population into ten figures. The United Nations estimates that in mid-2008 there were 987 million people, and in mid-2009, 1,010m.

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