Youth insecurity in Niger

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Alain Foka and his guests in Niamey, Niger.

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By: Alain Foka Follow

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Young people under 25 represent 70% of the population of Niger, and are, in fact, the future of the country.

A future faced with low education, endemic unemployment and increasingly permeable to obscurantist speeches by Islamist extremists who have bloodied the Sahel for more than ten years.

A major concern for the public authorities who are wondering about the policies to be adopted to avoid turning them into social bombs.

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Nations and institutions compete in ingenuity to develop strategies to prevent young people from falling into violence and radicalism.

But what if we stopped seeing young people as a problem to be solved?

What if we treated them as part of the solution?

What if, for once, we listened to their aspirations, their proposals?

With our guests:

- Leyhana Seyni Issa

, director, director of the Zara production communication agency and winner of the Young Leader Award committed to peace and security in Africa, for her work “Sensitization of young people on the misdeeds of extremism violent in Niger ”

- Fatoumata Adelle Barry

, general practitioner and humanitarian, consultant in health communication, writer and founder of Livres Niger, an association that promotes reading among young people

- Sani Fatouma Morou

, general manager, promoter and owner of the Espace Soleils d'Afrique cultural center in Niger.

Former Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts

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, founder and president of the African Development University in Niamey.

ADU is a non-profit university whose mission is to educate the region's most promising young people to become the future ethical leaders of their nations.

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