Sisi: Africa has 71% of least developed countries worldwide facing many challenges

DOHA – President Adel Fattah El Sisi said Monday that Africa has 71 percent of the world’s least developed countries.

In a speech read out on his behalf by Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al Mashat at the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha, the president added those least developed countries face development challenges.

President Sisi thanked Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the president of the conference, president of Malawi Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera who chairs the group of the least developed countries and United Nations Secretary General António Guterres for attending this edition of the UN-sponsored five-day gathering.

The president called on the international community to support the least developed countries to face the challenges, build new regional and international partnerships and create more chances for achieving development.

The president hailed the role played by the UN Secretary General to promote development work at the regional and international levels and the support of the UN agencies that help developed countries to face the challenges and achieve sustainable development.