Ghana: Millennium development goals beyond reach for Africa- says report

Presenting the findings of the Global Monitoring Report 2008: “MDGs and the Environment- Agenda Inclusive Sustainable Development” in Accra,  an Economist of the World Bank, Punam Chuhan-Pole, noted that the aggregate picture of Sub-Saharan Africa hid the progress made in many African countries towards achieving the MDGs.

(…) The report said Ghana ranked in the top five performers in the rural water sector in Africa due to generous assistance from development partners such as CIDA, IDA, UNICEF but criticized the country’s urban water sector. It slammed the country for not doing well in sanitation, describing it as badly off track, ranking in the bottom three in Sub-Saharan Africa. (…)

Source: Liberty Kofi Amewode, Daily Express / happy 98.FM, 30 Jun 2008