Ahead of the World Cup in South Africa, former UN Secretary-General/Africa Progress Panel Chair Kofi Annan and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador/football star Didier Drogba released ‘Scoring for Africa – An Alternative Guide to the World Cup’. The report compares statistics from African nations on issues such as economic growth, CO2 emissions, access to education and human development, with the nations they will face on the football field. It finds that Africans simply do not have a fair playing field on issues such as trade or the fight against climate change.

In the forward to the report, Annan and Drogba state: “We passionately believe that fair play should not be limited to the way countries play, run and score against each other, but also the way they do business and politics with each other; that the spirit of the World Cup should extend into countries’ economic and political relations; and that the celebration of our common humanity should not be limited to one month every four years.”

Click here to view the report.