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Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said that the country needs to slow its birth rate to avoid a catastrophe, local media reported.
He said that Egypt has to lower its annual births to 400,000 from the current more than two million for the country to efficiently provide jobs and social services to its citizens.
Mr al-Sisi also faulted remarks by Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Egypt’s health and population minister, that “having children is a matter of complete freedom”.
“Leaving their freedom to people who potentially do not know the extent of the challenge? In the end, it is the whole of society and the Egyptian state which will pay the price,” said Mr al-Sisi, who was speaking at the first Global Congress on Population, Health and Development
“We must organise this freedom otherwise it will create a catastrophe,” he added.
