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Number of hungry Gambians increase - Global Hunger Index
Monday, 11 October 2010 20:55
By Kemo ChamA newly published report indicates a discouraging
performance by Gambia in its Millennium
Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing the percentage of its hungry population. Gambia, with a reduction of 6%, shares the bottom of the table in the 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report with eight (8) other countries that experienced decline in their ability to feed their citizens.
With the exception of North Korea, which witnessed a 20% reduction in the number of its people who were sufficiently fed from 1990 to 2010, all nine countries, labeled as losers, are from Sub-Sahara Africa, according to the report, titled: “The Challenge of Hunger: Focus on The Crisis of ChildUndernutrition”. The other countries are Liberia - 6%, Guinea Bissau – 8%, Comoros – 21%, Burundi – 20%, Swaziland 14%, and Zimbabwe – 12%.
The Millennium Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger tasks countries to halve the proportion of their respective populations living on less than a dollar a day and those suffering from hunger by the year 2015. 1990 is used as the benchmark.
This GHI report, prepared jointly by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, placed Ghana as the only country in Sub-Saharan Africa among the 10 best performers in improving their GHI score since 1990. These countries, labeled as winners, are therefore well on track to meeting the food MGD target. Ghana, at seventh position, was able to reduce its hungry by an impressive 57%. The golf state of Kuwait topped the group with 73% and Peru at the bottom with 54%.
“About one-third of the countries made modest progress, reducing their GHI scores by between 25 and 49.9 percent, and another third decreased their GHI scores by between 0 and 24.9 percent,” the report states.
War ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo leads the group of poorly performed countries which had more of their people going hungry within the ten year period. While the poor performance of DR Congo, Burundi, Comoros, Guinea Bissau and Liberia was blamed on conflict and instability, in the Gambia, it said, undernourishment deteriorated in part due to lower social protection spending for vulnerable households. HIV and AIDS, as well as high inequality, were responsible for the low performance of Swaziland.
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Well my family is feed by My beloved president and I am grateful to him. I hope he recognise that I am a virgin for a third place. My mother is YAI COMPIN and she is pushing me to be close to President, professor, DR,Nebraska colonel …..ahhh I get excited with all his wisdom and education awards. The most educated in Gambia and African and his awards came from the best Universities on Earth said my mother.
officials,army officers and police officers were driving around town.The fuel bill for these vehicle could easily run into millions of dalasis every month.These
funds could have been spent on aleviating poverty.The Government should ditch gas guzzlers and buy more economical vehicles.For God's sake The Gambia depends on aid,and that is an undeniable fact.
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