Youth pledge fight for millennium goals

For young people across Africa, education is vital, argues Mohammed A. Latif Mbengue, a 28-year-old graduate student at Senegal’s Cheikh Anta Diop University. The fact that African countries have not yet succeeded in working together to solve the continent’s problems has hampered access to education. “The lack of coordination makes it very difficult for me if I want to study at another African university.”