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Problems Facing Africa today
•Governments are unstable
• Population growth – 2.9% population growth per year– At this rate, populations will double every 23 years
• Education– Literacy rate is low– 170 million adults can neither read nor write– 47 million youths are not in school – An uneducated population means that these
countries will not be able to compete in the world economy
• Aids and other diseases– Aids is killing the young men and women who are
the hope of their country