Thursday, January 10, 2008

Africa’s Fate Rests in the Hands of her Men

Edwin Okong'o , Mshale Staff Writer
Published 01/06/2008 - 5:21 a.m. GMT


The single greatest threat to Africa’s economic success in this century is not going to be the West’s repressive trade policies, or China’s undying quest to tag it’s name to the continent’s resources. It will not be civil wars, starvation, or global warming.

It will be HIV/AIDS.

Last year, 76 percent of all AIDS-related deaths worldwide occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. Those numbers are shocking, considering that only 11 percent of the world’s people live in the region.

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