Africa: Governments Urged On Childhood Development

The executive secretary of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa, Mamadou Ndoye, on Monday told the third African international Conference on ECD that opened in Accra, Ghana, that research had shown that early years were crucial for the intellectual development of a child. "Africa should focus on ECD because it has the most youthful population in the world, with 25% of the population comprising children below five," Ndoye said.