Africa

Question 1

How many of the 48 poorest nations in the world dwell in sub-Saharan Africa?

Answer 1

32

Question 2

What is Chad’s life expectancy and how does this compare to UK health?

Answer 2

49 years compared with 79 years. Shows Britain has a much better healthcare system

Question 3

What did a 2014 UN low human development report state?

Answer 3

24 of the 30 countries in the low human development category were African

Question 4

How much debt did the Ivory Coast have in 2015?

Answer 4

$4.4 billion

Question 5

Give an example of an NGO’s work in tackling Malaria

Answer 5

Novartis Malaria Initiative has provided over 600 million antimalarial treatments, without profit, to over 60 ‘malaria epidemic’ countries as well as helping train and deploy 1 million people

Question 6

What is the average doctor:population continent wide and how does this compare with Scotland?

Answer 6

1:5000 compared with 1:2000-2500

Question 7

What has UN proposed to do by 2070?

Answer 7

Halve the number of people without access to sanitation and solve the problem entirely in sub-Saharan Africa

Question 8

Which country suffers from 32% have no piped water and only 3% having flushing toilets?

Answer 8

Ethiopia

Question 9

What has been done by groups, such as the Alford rotary club, to help solve water problem?

Answer 9

‘Life straws’. Doesn’t need electricity or chemicals and removes 99.9% of bacteria. Cheap (£10) and last roughly 2 years

Question 10

How much of their GDP does Africa spend on Malaria and how has it affected growth?

Answer 10

$12 billion with countries with Malaria having average 1.3% less growth than countries without

Question 11

What does UNESCO say about education?

Answer 11

One year of schooling increases a person’s earnings by 10%

Question 12

Use an example to demonstrate the work of NGO’s regarding the problem of food in Africa

Answer 12

Mary’s Meals. Now feeds over 1 million people in 16 different countries worldwide. Its ‘under 6’ programme feeds thousands every day with an average cost of £7 for a child’s food for an academic year in Malawi

Question 13

How is the EU helping Africa?

Answer 13

European commission manage the ‘European Development Fund’. Most of UK multilateral aid is through this and the current 2014-20 budget is roughly $24 billion

Question 14

What did the AU accomplish in Sudan?

Answer 14

Observed a ceasefire in May 2004 as well as deploy 300 troops and 60 military observers to try and resolve the conflict. Consequently, Sudan saw its first elections since 1986 in April 2010

Question 15

How is Uganda an example of Kleptocracy?

Answer 15

The Health minister stole $1.6m meant for health aid

Question 16

How has aid success been limited in Uganda?

Answer 16

2/3 of DFID projects had to be reviewed due to poor partner capacity (Uganda didn’t do a good job of using it)

Question 17

How many people go hungry each year in Sub-Saharan Africa? (out of the 1 billion worldwide)

Answer 17

265m. It costs 6p to feed a child for a day (according to WFP)

Question 18

How has WFP helped in Chad?

Answer 18

Currently supports 1.4m affected by “Chronic food insecurity”. Does this in Lake Chad Basin by providing cash-based transfers to allow people to buy food from local markets.

Question 19

Why is food such an issue in Africa?

Answer 19

More people in Africa die from hunger than from AIDS, Malaria and TB combined (WFP)

Question 20

How did debt hinder Zambia’s development?

Answer 20

In 2015, spent 37.35% of its GDP on debt repayment but only 5% on health. When it received debt relief its healthcare became free

Question 21

What did world champion javelin boy Julius Yego say about the importance of education?

Answer 21

“In Africa, we always believe going to school is the best way of getting a better life”

Question 22

Which country has a primary school net enrolment of 84% (2011)?

Answer 22

Ghana

Question 23

How many children “attend classes hungry” (WFP)?

Answer 23

23m

Question 24

Since 1952…

Answer 24

…Almost half of the world’s civil wars have occurred in Africa

Question 25

How many children have been orphaned due to AIDS?

Answer 25

11.6m (2015)

Question 26

What is the life expectancy and HIV prevalence in Le Sotho?

Answer 26

48.7yrs & 23.1%

Question 27

What percentage of Africans, in 2015, lived on less than $2 a day?

Answer 27

70%

Question 28

How many civil wars have there been in Africa since 1960?

Answer 28

21

Question 29

In the DRC there was a ten year conflict. What effect did this have on the country economically?

Answer 29

Lost $18billion in GDP

Question 30

What was the UN peacekeeping budget for Africa from July 2014 to June 2015?

Answer 30

$6.2 billion

Question 31

How has soldier behaviour put a strain on Healthcare in Buya, Congo?

Answer 31

Avg of 100 sexual abuse victims went to clinic every week (probably) with 1 in 5 under five’s dead

Question 32

What % of girls would attend school in Ethiopia if there were private toilets?

Answer 32

11%

Question 33

What does 40 billion represent?

Answer 33

How many working hours are lost due to a need to carry water

Question 34

How does trade create poverty?

Answer 34

Reliant on a single product and are therefore at the mercy of global market.

Ethiopian coffee-bean farmers live on less than $2 a day
Coffee makes up 6% of Ethiopia’s GDP with the farmers receiving less than 1% of the price of goods they provide