Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:06:44 +0000 By AARON CHIYANZO AFRICAN governments should formulate policies that would serve to protect old persons from abuse, discrimination, and neglect because the population for the aged has been projected to triple in the next thirty years, Zambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe has said. He however said that Zambia had formulated policies meant to protect the aged through specific social protection programmes such as the Social Cash Transfer, Food Security Packs and Farmer Inputs Support Programme (FISP) mainly targeted at the vulnerable and potentially destitute older persons. Amb Kapambwe said that Africa was often described as a youthful continent, but that the age structure in the region had dramatically changed due to the decline in fertility and mortality rates in the region. He stated that it had been projected that the statistical percentage of the population of people at the age of 60 years and […]
