Africa and the challenge of the Millennium Development Goals

MDGs World leaders gathered at the Millennium Summit in New York in September 2000 adopted an ambitious set of goals aimed at achieving measurable progress towards reducing poverty and improving human well-being across the globe. They recognized the particular needs of Africa, the world’s poorest region, which lags behind on virtually every major indicator of development. They will return to New York in September 2005 to review what must be done to achieve the goals.