Africa's children need help
China Daily | Updated: 2011-09-20 08:09
THE SEVEN BILLIONTH CITIZEN OF OUR PLANET will likely be born next month. If he or she should be born in the Horn of Africa, a wretched life will unfortunately be almost guaranteed.
Worse, the seven billionth citizen may risk dying young because the situation for children on the continent remains dire. Africa is afflicted with the highest child mortality rate in the world and is plagued by disease.
The worst drought in 60 years and rising food prices are the main culprits of the current plight affecting large swaths of Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia.
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