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Cape Verde is only Portuguese-speaking African country to meet Millennium Development Goals
Lisbon, Portugal, 8 Sept - Cape Verde is the only Portuguese-speaking African country (PALOP) where the majority of Millennium Development Goals will be fulfilled, said the chairman of the Portuguese Institute for Support of Development.
“With the exception of Cape Verde, where the millennium goals will mostly and in their essence been achieved, in the remainder there is a need for more real ways of combating poverty,” said Manuel Correia speaking to Portuguese news agency Lusa on the day that marked 10 years since the signing of the Millennium Declaration, which included the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015.
Correia noted important progress made in some PALOP, such as Angola, because “they have better financial resources than the others," and East Timor, which is starting to see oil revenues, allowing for more effective cooperation.
In Mozambique’s case, the chairman of IPAD asked donors to continue helping the country, noting that situations such as those occurring in Mozambique last week, meaning the demonstrations, “are overcome with development, fighting for the country to develop as quickly as possible which fundamentally depends on the Mozambicans, but also on international help.”
Guinea Bissau’s situation is very different given that government and military instability has “repercussions,” because the country “provides no conditions for donors and worse still, for foreign investment.”
In 2000 the international community recognised that there were cases of such extreme poverty and inequality in the world that this was an “outrage” to humanity and thus that year it signed the Millennium Declaration, which outlines eight central development goals to be achieved in 15 years.
Source: macauhub
