Africa On the Rebound, Says World Bank

Nairobi — After decades of setbacks, an increasing number of African countries are lifting a good fraction of their citizens above the poverty line and sending more children to school.

But the region still needs help from wealthy nations to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by improving governance, accelerating and sustaining growth and job creation, delivering services, and fighting poverty, according to a World Bank report released on Monday.

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