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Africa
As
Chairman or Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
for more than a decade, I have been one of the Senate’s leading
proponents for focusing additional U.S. attention and resources to
help the people of Africa.
Plagued by poverty, conflict, and disease, Sub-Saharan Africa is one
of the world's poorest places. Seventy percent of its people live
on less than $2 a day and 200 million go hungry everyday. This year,
at least one million Africans, the majority of them young children,
will die of malaria and two million will die of AIDS.
Development assistance is essential to build the capacity of these
countries to provide critical humanitarian needs such as clean
water, health care, food, and basic education. In addition to
responding to humanitarian crises in Africa, I have worked to create
a more sustained, comprehensive approach necessary to help promote
peace and prosperity on the continent. |
