President D.r Lazarus Chakwera has urged all the African Higher Learning institutions to train their populations to solve the problems that the continent face today.

In his remarks during the African Population Conference happening at BICC in Lilongwe said Chakwera the population in Africa has a lot of potential to drive the innovation and economic activity, but still those potentials needs to be trained so that the problems that the continent face today could be fully solved.

“Gone are the days when there was an education system that focused on making education elites, who have had no impact in the society” he said

However, the Minister of Finance, Simplex Chithyola Banda said that the African conference will help to solve the problems that have been led to stagnated growth on the continent

Am fully convinced that the conference will provide the evidence based solutions to leverage the population dividend to produce clear and measurable outputs’ he said

The conference held under the Theme, “Leveraging Africa’s Human Capital to achieve Transformation in a World of Uncertainty” will run from today to Friday 24 May 2024.