Close to 70 percent of Africa’s youth between the ages of 15 and 35 have no access to formal employment. With time on their hands and a precarious future, some of them become susceptible to the messages and quick cash of extremist groups, such as al-Shabab, which carried out the recent heinous attacks in Kenya, and rebel groups like the Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces that terrorize the regions of Central and East Africa.
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