MDG Report 2009
Assessing Progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals
Africa continues to make progress toward the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but this progress remains uneven across goals and subregions. Progress in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to considerably lag behind all other regions of the world. Nonetheless, during 2008 there continued to be high-level political support both inside and outside Africa for the MDGs. In July, at the African Union Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, African leaders discussed and adopted a resolution urging all countries to deploy every means necessary to achieve the targets by the set dates.
