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    Sierra Leone: Could youth unemployment derail stability?

    FREETOWN: In Koidu, the capital of Sierra Leone's easternmost Kono province, 26-year-old Sam heads to the town-centre each morning seeking daily contract work building roads or digging ditches for the local authorities.
    4 Mar 2009
    4 Mar 2009

    The most he can hope to earn is US$2 a day. But most days no jobs are available so he hangs out with friends smoking marijuana.

    “There's nothing to do here. If I could, I'd trade diamonds” he said, referring to the youths who get cash by illegally smuggling diamonds across the border with Guinea.

    Read the full article on IRIN.

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