sabrina mahtani is human rights lawyer who researches prisons rights issues across africa. here s her reaction on the situation. the situation on the continent is really dire in terms of patent rights. of prison rights. i think this is an issue that is routinely left to the bottom of government agendas and sadly, it s only when a very tragic incident like what has happened in burundi happens that it gets to have some attention. we know that the majority of prisons on the continent are vastly overcrowded and many of them, actually, are holding prisoners who are not even sentenced. so i think about half of the african countries more than 40% of the prison population are in pretrial detention. and i think particularly with the covid 19 pandemic, we need to ask ourselves, do we need to have this number of people in prisons? the african commission, the un, the who have called on countries to make sure that prison populations are reduced in order to spread
the global services market is growing at an annual rate of around ten percent report published by allied market research shows it could be worth over thirty billion dollars by two thousand and twenty three. sided as well as some countries shrinking populations are a drag on many of the advanced economies after all who s going to pay the pensions of an aging population procreation appears on many government agendas in the form of financial support when i first came to germany i couldn t get over how many of my friends had no brothers or sisters that s changing but slowly. one point five nine that s the average birth rate per woman in germany. it s the highest figure since the one nine hundred seventy s. numbers have been rising for years. and children were born in twenty sixteen. partly because an increasing number of older women became mothers often with the
the global facility services market is growing at an annual rate of around ten percent report published by allied market research shows it could be a thirty billion dollars by two thousand and twenty three. sided as well as some countries shrinking populations are a drag on many of the advanced economies after all who s going to pay the pensions of an aging population procreation appears on many government agendas in the form of financial support when i first came to germany i couldn t get over how many of my friends had no brothers or sisters that s changing but slowly. one point five that s the average birth rate per woman in germany. it s the highest figure since one thousand nine hundred seventy s. numbers have been rising for years. hundred thousand children were born in twenty sixteen. partly because an increasing number of older women became mothers often
the global facility services market is growing at an annual rate of around ten percent report published by allied market research shows it could be worth over thirty billion dollars by two thousand and twenty three. excited as well as some countries shrinking populations are a drag on many of the advanced economies after all who s going to pay the pensions of an aging population procreation appears on many government agendas in the form of financial support when i first came to germany i couldn t get over how many of my friends had no brothers and sisters that s changing but slowly. one point five nine that s the average birth rate per woman in germany. it s the highest figure since the one nine hundred seventy s. numbers have been rising for years. eight hundred thousand children were born in twenty sixteen. partly because an increasing number of older women became mothers