Congo youth poverty tells one of the most painful paradoxes in modern Africa — a country sitting on vast oil wealth whose young population overwhelmingly lives in conditions of deprivation, unemployment, and diminished opportunity that decades of oil revenues have consistently failed to address. Congo youth poverty has become the defining political and social challenge facing Brazzaville as a generation of young Congolese — educated enough to understand what their country’s resources should be delivering and connected enough through social media to see how peers in other nations live —…
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