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A new report shows that no country in Africa will goals set to end childhood malnutrition by the year 2030. That target was by the United Nations in 2015 as a Sustainable Development Goal. The UN a set of goals, "to poverty, protect the planet and prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda". The new report is in the journal Nature. It poor child nutrition and low levels of education across 51 African countries. These key factors in countries to provide children with sufficient food. Researcher Simon Hay said the goal of childhood malnutrition was always an "aspirational" target. He said: "This aspiration is very, very far away."

There some good news in the report. It the fact that many African nations, including Ghana and Nigeria, have signs of improvement in childhood development since the year 2000. However, it is a different story for countries like Chad, Central African Republic and Eritrea. The report that malnutrition "persistently high" in 14 countries between Senegal in the west and Somalia in the east. Many of these countries have war, famine and mass migration, all of which have massive strains on health and agriculture. One researcher considerable investment was in health and infrastructure in order to "serious inequalities".