No fewer than 39 million Africans will go into extreme poverty in the current year, if there is no serious plan by African governments to ameliorate it.
Speaking during an interview on CNN yesterday, Adesina said, the Gross Domestic Product of Africa had gone down by $175 billion. “Last year, 30 million people went into extreme poverty. This year, if that trend continues, 39 million people are going into extreme poverty, hunger and so on.” Adesina also stressed the need for global cooperation to end the pandemic, saying, “we deal with this pandemic in one part of the world, and we don’t deal with other parts of the world, we’re all going back to square one.
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