The race to achieve millennium development goals by 2015

The World

Takeaway Special Correspondent Femi Oke traveled to U.N. Headquarters in New York ? and beyond ? for a deeper look at the Millennium Development Goals. With five years left to achieve the ambitious goals, which aim to alleviate hunger, poverty and illiteracy worldwide, massive challenges remain, but some nations have seen success.

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