Posted on 12/22/2017 6:46:29 AM PST by blam
CAIRO (AFP) — Ali Abdelaziz sees children as a “gift from God”, so much so that he has 10 of his own, even as Egypt’s government struggles to stem a “catastrophic” population boom. Abdelaziz works in the capital as a doorman, but his children stay in a village with their mother in the southern province of Minya where life is cheaper.
Egypt’s overpopulation is adding pressure on the economy, already reeling from the political and security turmoil since the 2011 uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak.
With 96 million inhabitants — and 9.4 million expatriates — the Arab world’s most populous country adds 1.6 million people every year to its population.
At the current rate, Egypt’s population will reach 119 million in 2030, according to a May report by the United Nations Population Fund.
With 95 percent of Egypt’s land uninhabitable desert, the population is concentrated around the narrow Nile valley and Nile Delta, with smaller numbers along the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts.
A fall in mortality rates in the early 1970s further boosted the population growth.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has said population growth is “a challenge as critical as that of terrorism.”
The government launched a new family planning campaign this year under the slogan “two are enough,” to try to contain the phenomenon.
“Children are protection: they care for their parents when they grow older,” said Abdelaziz, the doorman, unconvinced of the campaign.
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They had better put something in the Nile water or check some luggage.
Just remember: they blow up so fast.
These days, getting rid of unwanted Mussies is no problem. If they’ll Democrat, some in America want them all. No problem if they want to kill a few hundred people every year.
People are only catastrophic when their usefulness to each other is net negative.
Or Sweden. They’re taking all comers.
Something we'll learn to live with.
Not to worry, they’ll all come here on chain immigration.
Did you forget armed with improvised explosive devices ie. IEDs?
Where’s a good plague when you really need it?
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