Africa


AFR/26
10 November 1997


Press Release
AFR/26
POP/653


UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND OPENS AFRICA MEETING

19971110 HARARE, 10 November (UN Information Service) -- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) opened its biennial regional meeting for Africa in Harare this morning.

The meeting, which comes three years after the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994, is taking place at a critical time in the history of population development in Africa.