Africa's rapid population growth puts poverty progress at risk, says Gates
The more you feed, the more they breed. The more they breed, the more they need. The more they need, the more you bleed. It's quite simple, really.
Rapid population growth in some of Africa’s poorest countries could put at risk future progress towards reducing global poverty and improving health, according to a report by the philanthropic foundation of Bill Gates.“Population growth in Africa is a challenge,” Gates told reporters in a telephone briefing about the report’s findings.By 2050, it projected, more than 40 percent of world’s extremely poor people will live in just two countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria.