NOTHING TO EAT BUT FACE FLIES AND United Nations CORN MUSH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/771271.stmAfrica's problems
Roads: only 16% paved
Telephones: 10 per 1000
Electricity: 80% lack access
Aids: 35m infected
Sanitation: inadequate for 75% of rural population
Source: Can Africa Claim the 21st Century
The bank says the total combined income of 48 countries in Africa is little
more than that of Belgium.
In the last 40 years, average incomes per person in Africa have stagnated
while they have grown in most of the rest of the world.
Africa now accounts for only 1% of the total world economic output and 2% of
world trade.
On average, African countries have economies smaller than a town of 60,000
people in a rich country.
With only 10m telephone lines, half of them in South Africa, there is little
chance of most Africans gaining access to the internet.
Africa has fewer roads than Poland, only 16% of which are paved, and only
one in five households has access to electricity.
Two-thirds of rural Africans lack adequate water supplies, while three
quarters lack adequate sanitation.