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Africa can get off the yoke of poverty

The first of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed on by world countries in the UN General Assembly in New York last year is to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere.

Poverty is currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 (an equivalent of Sh126) a day. The SDGs are a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose tenure expired in 2015.

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