The terrorist group Boko Haram has exploited high unemployment to recruit new fighters in Cameroon along the Nigerian border. To counter those efforts, some charity groups are offering training for unemployed youth to help them start their own businesses. Moki Edwin Kindzeka has this report by Anne Nzouankeu in Amchidé, Cameroon.
In 2003, then-Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Child Right Act into law in 2003, to preserve the rights of children and protect them from exploitative labor. But 17 years later, millions of Nigerian children still take on physically challenging work to earn money to survive or to support their families. Ifiok Ettang reports from Jos, Nigeria~VOA NEWS
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