Africa: Why ‘alarming’ population rise worries AU – ACBF

By Racheal Ishaya

The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), an African Union’s (AU) specialised agency for capacity development has raised concern over population growth in Africa.

The agency also attributed poverty on the continent to what it described as alarming rise in population.

The ACBF Executive Secretary, Prof. Emmanuel Nnadozie said this on Friday in an interview with Newsmen on the sidelines of the IMF/World Bank meetings in Washington DC, United States of America.

Nnadozie said one of the major problems dragging down the continent was the fact that its population was growing fast without matching economic growth.

“Demographic growth is one of our biggest challenges. The rate of growth of the population is too high to be maintained by the rate of growth of the economy.

“Therefore, we can no longer hide from discussing the issue of high…