Africa has several great problems such as bad water supply, poverty, children labour, Aids and desert-diffusion due to heavy grazing. These problems is very hard to solve, Aids has no cure and is constant increasing. But one of the problems is connected to the other. Many people in Africa are very poor and if the poverty could be stopped, the other problems would be easier to solve. This article is about these problems and also how one of the poorer countries of Africa got to be so poor.

Poverty in Africa
In the part of Africa south of Sahara are 46% of the people extremely poor. That is to say the people can hardly get food for the day. Three of four Africans lives on 2US$/day and there is no reason to believe it will get better any time soon. The continent is almost completely screened of from the rest of the global growth. Few investments and weak finances, fragile political system and plenty armed conflicts and the economical reforms have had almost none effect.

Due to Aids/HIV…
In southern Africa will the national income reduce with about 15 - 20 % during the nearest 10 years. In South Africa there about 20% of the people has Aids/HIV has scientist calculated that GNP will be 17% lower in year 2010 than it would be without the disease. Similar losses will happen for other countries in southern Africa with many infected people. 1999 was 13.2 millions children without parents due to Aids and a great part of the children must live on the street to survive and are not older then 5, 6 years. In sixteen African countries is more then 10% of the grownups infected, in seven more then 20%. Africa has the largest number infected in the world.

Water
In big parts of Africa is there a lack of fresh water. Many Africans must walk miles to get their daily water. There are way too few wells and if one would stop working, the people don't have the knowledge to repair it. And on some places has the groundwater salt in it that makes the water undrinkable. But at the worst places can the people only get water from city sewers and from there spreads diseases like the yellow fever.

Zimbabwe

History- Imperialism South-Rhodesia became a colony in the British Commonwealth in 1923. But the newcomer, who came for the mines, the agriculture and where adventurers, lived very independent from Great Brittan. The racial discrimination was big, 1930 did a new law say that only white had the right to own his land. White farmers took control over the fertile land while the blacks had to crowd together on poorer bits of land. The immigration increased substantially after the Second World War and the country evolved in to a successful major farming country. The farmers did soon export just as much as the mines.

Robert Mugabe 1980 was the leader of ZANU, Robert Mugabe, elected for prime minister. Mugabe did early succeed with breaking the racial barrier through asking the white people (that where left) for help with rebuilding the country. Mugabe did also take the initiative for good public school and free medical service. Mugabe got the title president when he stopped the fights between ZAPU and ZANU through uniting them into ZANU-pf. Mugabe's popularity went down when a corruption scandal was revealed but he managed to get re-elected. When Zimbabwe's army joined the war in Congo did the war severely undermine the country's economy and it made Mugabes regime lose important aid money. This is one reason for the great poverty the country now is experiencing but there is more.