Youths account for 60% of all of Africa’s jobless, according to the World Bank. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is financing some of Senegal’s self-employment programmes for youth and women. In Senegal, with 200,000 Senegalese joining the labour market each year, President Macky Sall launched a programme in February 2013 to create 30,000 jobs within a year and possibly 300,000 by 2017.
African governments are confronting unemployment in many different ways.
