The Millennium Development Goals, adopted by 189 world leaders in 2000, include cutting extreme poverty by half, ensuring primary school education, and reducing child deaths. (Sunday Alamba via Associated Press)
They certainly look beautiful enough.
"Child death rates rise in 6 African nations; Report checks progress made by UN program" by Jason Straziuso, Associated Press | June 23, 2010
NAIROBI — Ten African countries have halved their poverty rates over the past two decades, but child mortality rates have increased in six sub-Saharan nations, a report on the UN’s Millennium Development Goals released yesterday found.
The countries that halved their poverty rates since 1990 include relatively populous countries such as Ethiopia and Egypt and postconflict countries such as Angola. However, in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, the proportion of the population living in extreme poverty has risen.
The West has so failed in Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world registering an increase in the under age 5 mortality rate, which has risen in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Kenya, and Zambia. Thirty-four of the world’s 36 countries with child mortality rates above 100 per 1,000 births are in sub-Saharan Africa. The others are Afghanistan and Myanmar.
The Millennium Development Goals Report Card, which was sponsored in part by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was released yesterday to coincide with meetings of G-8 and G-20 countries in Canada beginning Friday. The report said the key message concerning the goals is that progress is possible.
The conditions that help a country make progress include open trade policies, an openness to technology, consistent leadership committed to reducing poverty, and overhauls aimed at making the public sector accountable, the report said.
Oh, look at the agenda-pushing measurements they are using.
The Millennium Development Goals, adopted by 189 world leaders in 2000, include cutting extreme poverty by half, ensuring universal primary school education for all children, reducing child and maternal deaths, halting and reversing the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation, all by 2015.
As same leaders live lavishly and jet around the planet as Africans starve to death every day.
See: Obama Abandons Africa to AIDS
Well, you know....
Yesterday’s report said that progress was mixed on the goal of halving the number of people who suffer from hunger. Just over half of the countries have made progress in reducing undernourishment. Progress has varied greatly. In Ghana, hunger levels were cut 75 percent between 1990 and 2004, but in the Democratic Republic of Congo, hunger levels more than doubled to 76 percent during that period.
Congo just keeps getting creamed.
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That was an odd article considering what I read a month prior:
"Fewer youths die from preventable causes worldwide, new study estimates" by Associated Press | May 24, 2010
LONDON — Using more data and an improved modeling technique, scientists predicted that about 7.7 million children under 5 would die this year, down from nearly 12 million in 1990. The study was published online today in the British medical journal, Lancet....
Related: 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion
Also see: Memory Hole: 600,000 DEAD!
Yeah, somehow those surveys are not credible.
Christopher Murray, one of the paper’s authors and director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said death rates were falling surprisingly fast in countries including Liberia and Niger, but that progress had stalled in rich countries like Britain and the United States.
WTF, readers?
Where information was limited, researchers used modeling projections to estimate the number of deaths. The research was paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation....
WTF, readers?
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"New meningitis vaccine could prevent outbreaks" by Maria Cheng, Associated Press | July 1, 2010
LONDON — Health officials say a new meningitis vaccine will help prevent epidemics in Africa for the first time, revolutionizing how doctors fight outbreaks of the deadly disease.
Related(?): Swine Flu Swindle
Meningitis = Money?
Meningitis, a potentially fatal infection of the lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, strikes more than 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia. Last year, there were about 80,000 cases, including more than 4,000 deaths.
While rich countries have used meningitis vaccines for years, those available in the developing world cannot be used to prevent outbreaks because they do not last very long. They also cannot be used in children under 2, who are most vulnerable to the disease. Until now, health officials have immunized people only in an emergency situation, once an outbreak starts.
Last week, the World Health Organization approved a new vaccine that could stop outbreaks before they even begin.
Seeing as their credibility is at zero and they have been exposed as a profit-making front for pharmaceutical companies.
“This is pretty close to a revolution in terms of controlling meningitis,’’ Daniel Berman, deputy director of the Access for Essential Medicines campaign for Doctors Without Borders, said yesterday. “With this new vaccine, we will be able to plan ahead to prevent outbreaks.’’
The new vaccine is the result of a partnership that began in 2001 between the World Health Organization, the Serum Institute of India, and PATH, an international nonprofit funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
It is at this point I begin to get suspicious.
Btw, how did Africa get to be such a mess with western attention all these years?
Or is that why it is a mess?
Related(?): Gates' EndGame
So the geek is in on it?
The vaccine targets type A meningitis, which causes more than 90 percent of outbreaks in Africa. Last week, WHO verified the vaccine meets its quality-control requirements, meaning other agencies like UNICEF can now buy it for countries. It costs about 40 cents a shot.
After that contaminated swine flu s*** they pushed on us all for no reason?
I'm sorry, guys, but the TRUST is GONE!
Meningitis is highly contagious and spreads through sneezing, coughing, or living in cramped conditions.
Symptoms include a stiff neck, high fever, headaches, and vomiting.
Even when the disease is caught early and treatment is started, up to 10 percent of patients die within 2 days.
About 20 percent of survivors have long-term problems like brain damage and hearing loss.
Health officials are planning to roll out the vaccine in three of the countries most heavily affected by meningitis: Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger....
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"Bombings in Uganda’s capital kill at least 30" by Godfrey Olukya, Associated Press | July 12, 2010
KAMPALA, Uganda — Bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda’s capital late yesterday as people watched the World Cup final on TV, killing at least 30 people....
Related: "Al-CIA-Duh" Threatens World Cup
You mean they bombed.... Uganda?
They DO NOT EVEN HAVE a TEAM in the World Cup -- and here the Dutch were playing in the championship!
Police Chief Kale Kaihura said Somalia’s most feared militia — al-Shabab, which has pledged loyalty to Al Qaeda — could be behind the attacks.
Uh-huh.
Related: "Al-CIA-Duh" School in Somalia
Trained by WHITE TEACHERS, huh?
One of the bombs went off at an Ethiopian restaurant. Al-Shabab views Ethiopia as an enemy....
Isn't that just flat-out wonderful propaganda, as if it is just to be slurped up and believed?
What a dog s*** MSM we have over here, dear readers.
Btw, Ethiopia still has occupying troops in Somalia, right, MSM?
Hello?
Al-Shabab is Somalia’s most dangerous militant group, one that militant veterans of the Afghan, Pakistan, and Iraq conflicts have helped train, according to international officials.
Yup, CIA sending all their guys to.... Somalia?
If Kaihura’s early suspicions that al-Shabab was responsible prove true, it would be the first time the group has carried out attacks outside Somalia.
Translation: CIA is expanding the war on terror to establish a facade for military occupation and theft of resources.
You know, same old, same old.
In Mogadishu, Sheik Yusuf Sheik Issa, an al-Shabab commander, said today that he was happy with the attacks in Uganda. Issa refused to confirm or deny al-Shabab was responsible.
BEHAVING JUST LIKE a CIA SPOKESMAN is he?
“Uganda is one of our enemies. Whatever makes them cry, makes us happy. May Allah’s anger be upon those who are against us,’’ Sheik said.
Oh, this is such a stink and I did not wake up in that kind of mood.
During prayers on Friday, another al-Shabab commander, Sheik Muktar Robow, had called for militants to attack sites in Uganda and Burundi — two nations that contribute troops to the African Union force in Mogadishu.
Then why was an Ethiopian diner bombed?
In addition to its troops in Mogadishu, Uganda also hosts Somali soldiers trained in US- and European-backed programs.
Oooooooh!
Yesterday, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said the United States was prepared to provide any necessary assistance to the Ugandan government.
You mean, like, kid soldiers?
Ten-hut.... soldier?
Kenya’s foreign minister, Moses M. Wetangula, said last week that enough veteran militants from the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan conflicts have relocated to Somalia to spark worry inside the international community.
International militants have flocked to Somalia because the country’s government controls only a few square miles of the capital, Mogadishu, with much of the rest of the nation open for insurgents.
Yeah, whatever, propaganda pushers.
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What a way to start a Monday.
Also see: Soccer Sunday: Somalia's Secret Vote
Yeah, I wonder how the vote turned out.Oh, btw, congratulations to Spain:
Spain 1, Netherlands 0
I watched more soccer matches the last month than I have my whole life and it was for you, my dear followers.
I'm glad someone scored a goal; that penalty kicks thing isn't the best way to decide the game. That is like a basketball game being stopped and decided by free throws.
Also see: It’s a breakaway: In Boston, fans celebrate Spain’s World Cup win
