The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has launched the Presidential Youth Advisory Group (PYAG) to provide insights and innovative solutions for job creation for Africa’s youth, as outlined in the Bank’s Job's for Youth in Africa Strategy.
The Jobs for Youth in Africa initiative aims at creating 25 million jobs and impacting 50 million youth over the next ten years by equipping them with the right skills to get decent and meaningful jobs. It is currently the largest effort going on for youth employment in Africa today
Thousands protested in northeastern Tunisia on Thursday to mark a general strike over unemployment and poverty, six years since a revolution ignited by similar...
Jobless people demonstrate. Due to the failure to create jobs, global unemployment is forecast to increase by 3.4 million people in 2017, bringing the...
Ghana’s Deputy Minister for Tourism, Cultural and Creative Arts, Abla Dzifa Gomashie(Fourth from right) with some young people in Ghana. Photo Credit: Emmanuel Leslie...
The government in Nigeria has said that it’s national tax authorities have been reviewing some 700,0000 applications for just 500 jobs.
The West African nation...
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
