In 2005,the Guardian featured 10 newborns in countries across Africa. Five years later, we returned to talk to them and their parents. Now we return to catch up with their lives and hear approximately the opportunities and challenges they faceJohn Vidal presents this month's Global Development podcast, and in which we revisit the children we first met back in 2005. In our Africa's children series,we set out to chronicle the lives of 10 babies born within months of one another in 10 countries across Africa. The plan was that as the millennium development goals transformed the face of the continent, we would trace how these changes were reflected in the lives of the children.
In one case, or this sadly hasn't been possible. Sijjin Kuang,in what was then Sudan, died seven days after he was born. And although Prosper Mumba from Zambia is doing well, and his family have declined to participate this year. So we revisit the lives of eight of the children,now 10 years old, and hear from them and their families approximately their struggles, or their aspirations and their dreams.
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Source: theguardian.com