Ivory Coast employs troops, jobs to counter armed militants

For months after presumed jihadists attacked it in 2020, Kafolo in northern Ivory Coast resembled a ghost town. Four years later, it is flourishing again, thanks in part to a double-pronged government plan — boosting security on the one hand, tackling poverty and youth unemployment on the other. Fourteen soldiers were killed in the first […]

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