News About Congo

The Breast Milk Gap

NEWS FLASH! Congo is better off than the US in this one aspect.  This is a must read article.

America is startlingly inferior to five of the world’s poorest countries — at least by one metric.

When it comes to a crucial health behavior, Malawi, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Niger are among the most advanced; America lags far behind. Why?

We don’t breastfeed.

That’s right. America: the land of the free and the home of the formula fed.

“The norm has really shifted,” said Ellen Piwoz, senior program officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation nutrition team. For many mothers — particularly those who are young, black, poor or who have less than a college education — nursing is not an obvious option.

New index ranks world's nationalities: Germany vs SA vs Congo

The Congo ranks last again in yet another list.  But all is not bad in the Africa, thanks to South Africa.

South Africa is ranked as one of the top nationalities in Africa, according to a new index unveiled in Zurich on 2 June 2016.  

Henley & Partners, a global citizen and partners planning agency, say the Kochenov Quality of Nationality Index (QNI) is the first to ever objectively rank the quality of nationalities worldwide and explores both internal factors and external factors related to quality of life and living standard measures.

QNI assesses things like the scale of the economy, human development, and peace and stability as well as visa-free travel, for which SA has access to some 97 countries, as well as the ability to settle and work abroad without cumbersome formalities, says the agency.

According to Henley and partners, these are the determining factors that "make one nationality better than another in terms of legal status in which to develop your talents and business

To calculate the internal value of each nationality, which comprises 40% of the score, took into account the economic strength of the country, measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at 15%, scale of human development, as expressed by the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) at 15%, and the level of peace and stability, according to the Global Peace Index (GPI) at 10%.

The external value of nationality accounts for 60% of the ranking score looked at diversity of settlement freedom at 15%, weight of settlement freedom at 15%, diversity of travel freedom at 15%, and weight of travel freedom at 15%.

The QNI has ranked the German nationality the highest in the world over the last five years with a score of 83.1%.

Sandra Woest, Senior Manager at Henley & Partners South Africa says even though The South African nationality falls into the Medium Quality tier on the Index and in fact lags behind countries in Europe, large parts of Asia, North America, and even many South American nationalities, "it is one of the stronger nationalities in Africa.”

The nationality of the Democratic Republic of Congo sits at the bottom of the index on 14.3%.

via traveller24.news24.com