Uganda certainly is in a state of emergency

In
2007 and 2008 world leaders gathered in New
York City
to discuss world affairs including the
implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Noting that Africa
especially Sub-Saharan Africa may not achieve
any of the MDGs by 2015 they concluded that the region was in a state of
emergency requiring massive and urgent international support.  

Specifically,
the rapidly deteriorating social and environmental conditions in Uganda leave no
doubt that the ‘Pearl of Africa’ is in deep trouble with a bleak future.
Reports from credible sources reveal that 30 percent of Ugandans are suffering from
hunger, over 33 percent of Uganda’s population are suffering from mental
illness, 40 percent of children under the age of five are undernourished, 12
percent of infants are born underweight because their mothers are
undernourished, up to 80 percent of children are dropping out of primary school
largely because they are hungry (and most of the 20 percent who graduate are
functionally illiterate) and 80 percent of Uganda will turn into a desert
within 100 years largely because of extensive de-vegetation including draining
swamps. Uganda ranks among the top ten countries in the world in alcohol consumption. Add on
the fact that over 22 percent of children between the ages of one and nine
years have trachoma, the leading cause of blindness, and one has no choice but
to conclude definitively that Uganda is indeed in a state of emergency!

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