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Population growth isn’t a problem – Museveni By Anne Mugisa and Cathy Mwesigwa, President Yoweri Museveni has cautioned that the population issue in Africa should be put in its proper context and discussed without complacency, exaggeration or panic. (L-R) Belinda Gates, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, President Yoweri Museveni and wife Janet, and Stephen Oiben the United Kingdom Under Secrectary of State for International Development during a meeting at Queen Elizabeth 11 conference center in London. He observed that industrial societies do not have time to generate so many children and added that evidence shows that in Africa too, middle class women also do not have time to generate children endlessly. Speaking at an international family planning summit in the UK Wednesday, Museveni said that population growth isn’t the problem but, according to him, underdevelopment and lack of social-economic transformation as well as child spacing which would ensure the health of babies and mothers. Museveni was accompanied to the summit by his wife, First Lady and Minister for Karamoja, Janet Museveni. He urged African governments and their development partners to sensitise the peasant women about child spacing to ensure spaced and planned child births. “The middle class women do not need it much because they have no time to spend making babies endlessly. It is the peasants who need to be helped,” Museveni observed. “Those administering family planning services to the uneducated should explain to them carefully what they entail so that they can seek out these services out of informed choices and not manipulation,” Museveni added. Read more »





By Anne Mugisa and Cathy Mwesigwa,

President Yoweri Museveni has cautioned that the population issue in Africa should be put in its proper context and discussed without complacency, exaggeration or panic.

(L-R) Belinda Gates, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, President Yoweri Museveni and wife Janet, and Stephen Oiben the United Kingdom Under Secrectary of State for International Development during a meeting at Queen Elizabeth 11 conference center in London.

He observed that industrial societies do not have time to generate so many children and added that evidence shows that in Africa too, middle class women also do not have time to generate children endlessly.

Speaking at an international family planning summit in the UK Wednesday, Museveni said that population growth isn’t the problem but, according to him, underdevelopment and lack of social-economic transformation as well as child spacing which would ensure the health of babies and mothers.

Museveni was accompanied to the summit by his wife, First Lady and Minister for Karamoja, Janet Museveni.

He urged African governments and their development partners to sensitise the peasant women about child spacing to ensure spaced and planned child births.

“The middle class women do not need it much because they have no time to spend making babies endlessly. It is the peasants who need to be helped,” Museveni observed.

“Those administering family planning services to the uneducated should explain to them carefully what they entail so that they can seek out these services out of informed choices and not manipulation,” Museveni added.
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