Lack of jobs, the main driver of violent extremism in sub-Saharan Africa: UNDP

adminFebruary 7, 2023September 9, 202406 mins

The report entitled, Journey to Extremism in Africa: Pathways to Recruitment and Disengagement, underscores the importance of economic factors as drivers of recruitment. Desperation factor Lack of income, the lack of job opportunities and livelihoods, means that “desperation is essentially pushing people to take up opportunities, with whoever offers that”, said Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator,…

Fake medicines kill almost 500,000 sub-Saharan Africans a year: UNODC report

adminFebruary 1, 2023September 9, 202404 mins

A lack of access to healthcare and medicines has been fuelling a host of opportunists aimed at filling the gaps, the report Trafficking in Medical Products in the Sahel shows. But, this supply and an imbalance in demand, has triggered deadly results. Bitter pill of trafficking In sub-Saharan Africa, as many as 267,000 deaths per year are linked to…