Africa's total land area is approximately 11,724,000 square miles, which is about 30,365,000 square km. From north to …. After Asia, Africa is the second largest continent, covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of the Earth. Africa …

Millennium Development Goal #1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day per person) and hunger. Progress toward this goal … has been excellent at global level, led by China and India, but woefully insufficient in sub-Saharan Africa. In Africa, a … health, malnutrition and ultra-poverty are mutually reinforcing states that add to the challenge of addressing any one of …