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    N.O.R.F;977555 wrote:
    These reports tend to be baseless scare mongering to legislate for more 'help' through dodgy NGOs/UN. How is Somalia going to go from 10m to 27m in 37 years? Sad thing they will get Africans to try and sell this to Africa.

    It's a mathematical calculation. It depends on the variables used ie population growth rate being what it is projected to be. And that can change pretty rapidly. In 1990 Iranian women were having 4 kids or so now it's less than 2.

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    ^At independence some 50 years ago the continent had half the population it has now. Yet there have been no massive reforms in agriculture, sanitation or medicine in the intervening years that the population has doubled. Somehow or other that population increase was 'supported' barring a few politically induced famines. I think no one has any idea of what a continent or the earth can 'support'. This doesn't mean that governments shouldn't plan and that rapid population growth has very real consequences.

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    Naxar Nugaaleed;977226 wrote:
    Do you just dislike white people or are you really that ignorant about the Negative consequence of overpopulation

    White people have been talking about overpopulation since Malthus - enough of the Chicken Little act. What's interesting is that some skinny who arrived not more than 25 years ago is parroting this. Go figure.

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    ^At an environmental non-profit i used to volunteer at - the director used to say by 2012 there will be a rise in sea levels and many coastal cities around the world would start to get flooded. Predictions, baah.

     

    Hope Kenya manages it well - don't think the Turkana will do too well out of it.

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    A new report says 2.4 billion people will inhabit Africa by 2050. Growth will triple in some African nations.

     

    Africa’s population is predicted to more than double to 2.4 billion people by 2050 according to a new study that also raises questions about whether efforts to lift the continent out of poverty may be in vain.

     

    The 10 countries with the world’s highest fertility rates are all in sub-Saharan Africa, where mothers have an average of 5.2 children, according to a report released Thursday from the Washington DC-based Population Research Bureau.

     

    In Niger, which has the world's fastest population growth rate, women give birth to an average of 7.6 children, four times the US figure of 1.9.

     

    “Rapid population growth makes it difficult for economies to create enough jobs to lift large numbers of people out of poverty,” said Wendy Baldwin, the organization's president.

     

    Seven of the 10 countries with the highest fertility rates also appear among the bottom 10 on the United Nations’ Human Development Index.

     

    But Africa is also home to seven of the world’s fastest growing economies, points out Julia Schünemann, director of the Africa Futures Project at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.

     

    “Rapid population growth is clearly going to increase pressure on Africa’s governments to deliver education, health care, security and, most importantly jobs,” she says.

     

    “But it should be seen as an opportunity, too," Ms. Schünemann adds. "African countries also have the world’s fastest economic growth rates. The question is, can those economies grow quickly enough to offset the demands of population growth. In general, I don’t think we should be too pessimistic.”

     

    International aid agencies are increasingly focusing efforts in Africa on family planning by advising governments how to increase access to contraceptives and helping women choose when to have children.

     

    But this is unpopular in some countries, especially where religious doctrines that frown on contraception hold sway with government leaders.

     

    Projections in the Population Research Bureau study assume that “family planning will become widespread” in Africa, says Carl Haub, co-author of the report.

     

    “If not, Africa’s population will grow more rapidly, further constraining efforts to address poverty, create jobs, and protect the environment,” he says.

     

    By 2050, many African states will likely more than double in population. Kenya will rise from 44 million to 97 million people, and Nigeria from 174 million to 440 million.

     

    Some nations will nearly triple their growth, the reports finds. Somalia will have 27 million people in 2050, up from an estimated 10 million today; the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 71 million population is predicted to rise to 182 million.

     

    The total number of people on the continent is predicted to rise from 1.1 billion to 2.4 billion.

     

    The report gave 20 different indicators for more than 200 countries. It found that US mothers give birth to an average of 1.9 children. Bosnia-Herzegovina has the world’s lowest birth rate of 1.2 children.

     

    The world’s population is forecast to increase from roughly 7.1 billion today to more than 9.7 billion in 2050, the report calculated.

     

    India, currently the second most populous country in the world, will overtake China to become the most populous by 2030, it was estimated. By 2050, India’s population will be 1.6 billion and China’s 1.3 billion.

     

    The US population was estimated to rise from 316 million to 400 million over the same period.

     

     

    http://news.yahoo.com/africas-baby-boom-population-double-mid-century-155438150.html

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    CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia approved $5 billion in aid to Egypt on Tuesday and the United Arab Emirates has offered $3 billion in desperately needed support for the economy after the army ousted the Islamist president last week.

     

    The Saudi funds comprise a $2 billion central bank deposit, $2 billion in energy products, and $1 billion in cash, the Saudi Finance Minister Ibrahim Alassaf told Reuters.

     

    http://news.yahoo.com/uae-offers-egypt-3-billion-support-saudis-5-164305772.html

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    Aisha Sabriye, 52, owns two houses in Mogadishu's Hodan district.......They will pay $600 a month once the homes are completed, she said.........the mother of eight who lives in Elasha Biyaha

     

    What is wrong with this picture? She lives in a refugee camp and she's collecting 600 a month?

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    ^Good question. Sorta reminds me of Iran's Mossadegh - ppl whipped up and manipulated to overthrow someone they just elected overwhelmingly 1 year ago. It doesn't matter tho - MB will be contesting the elections anyway. The military can't do away with that.

     

    Marksman - it doesn't work like that. You wait for elections to voice your desire for change. But I blame the military for this. All the violent protests racking Greece, Spain etc didn't lead to a military coup masquerading as supporting the people's desires.