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Coronavirus restrictions have had an overwhelming effect on African countries, and in Kenya more than 1.7 million people lost their jobs during the first three months of the pandemic, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics reported.
Thousands of parents were laid off across the continent, forcing many families into extreme poverty.
With schools closed for the most part for the past two years due to COVID-19-related restrictions, Koech Kipsiele, 13, was forced to work to help the family bring food to…
inflation and unemployment threaten the primary economic system
Unemployment reaches 33% of the working population, inflation 17%, the statistics for February 2021 reflect in all their severity the serious economic crisis that Nigerians are going through. Africa's largest economy - in terms of GDP - is facing several crises, food products are rising dangerously and extreme poverty is rising. Pandemic, agricultural crisis and oil rent decline, the picture is bleak…
Gabon: Port-gentil falls in poverty and unemployment attributable to Covid-19
On this small working class city, financial and social life revolves round oil actions. The Covid-19 pandemic, which has brought on a staggering drop within the worth of a barrel of oil, has closed a number of oil analysis corporations. Tons of of jobs misplaced. Unemployment is in full swing and distress has received the inhabitants. Report within the streets of Port-Gentil. .