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2020-05-21 Africa Subsaharan

UN chief warns Covid-19 could cause poverty, hunger for millions in Africa

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-21 02:41|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 They're wealthy & well nourished now?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-21 02:44|| 2020-05-21 02:44|| Front Page Top

#2 "Poverty and hunger for millions in Africa" will continue to increase with or without CV-19.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-21 02:45|| 2020-05-21 02:45|| Front Page Top

#3 And the climate change lunatics are loving every minute of it.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-21 07:01|| 2020-05-21 07:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Guess they should do something about it.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-21 07:52|| 2020-05-21 07:52|| Front Page Top

#5 let me guess, the solution is to give more money to the UN

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-21 10:00|| 2020-05-21 10:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Notice if you will, how seldom you hear the continent of Africa referenced as an economic and social quagmire ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-21 10:03|| 2020-05-21 10:03|| Front Page Top

#7 About the only country "doing anything" in Africa is China.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-21 10:10|| 2020-05-21 10:10|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ The Chinese face the same impediments to progress as others who have gone before them, the tribal citizenry. Perhaps science will provide the Chinese a 'way ahead.'

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-21 10:15|| 2020-05-21 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 "Follow the science"! lol

Posted by Clem 2020-05-21 10:16|| 2020-05-21 10:16|| Front Page Top

#10 How CV mostly skipped Black Africa is such an interest to me. Looking at the numbers, it's Europeanized S.Africa and Morocco, and Arabized Nigeria and Sudan that have the most CV deaths.

What's the outlier? The spike in deaths in anglo-ized and arabized countries, or the lull in deaths in Black Africa. I always considered black africa as a petri dish in seeing how contagions spread and how fatal they are. And I always thought any disease would ravage Africa at least three times the rate of Westernized countries. CV has flipped my model upside down.

As for the UN chief's comments, I thought we had long standing understanding that Africa was nothing but poverty and hunger. CV cant make the continent any more of a crap hole than it already is.

Posted by mossomo 2020-05-21 13:16|| 2020-05-21 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 CV has flipped my model upside down.

I’d wait six months before drawing any conclusions, mossomo. It took the Black Plague three years to reach the hinterlands after it landed in Venice.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-21 14:56|| 2020-05-21 14:56|| Front Page Top

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