youth unemployment Archives

Unemployment rate unchanged in July, though jobless rate for young people continued to rise

Canada’s economy shed 2,800 jobs in July while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.4 per cent, Statistics Canada said on Friday. Employment fell in wholesale and retail trade, which shed …

Meet the self-proclaimed ‘Prince of Africa’ who wants to be Ghana’s next president

by Walter Watson

Ghanaian presidential hopeful Nana Kwame Bediako goes by three different names — each name, he says, represents a different aspect of his persona. The 44-year-old entrepreneur and real estate developer …

Thousands of Nepalis were paid to join Russia’s war against Ukraine. Now they’re haunted by trauma and debt

by Walter Watson

The escape cost Thapa 600,000 rupees (US$4,500), money he did not have and had to borrow from home. He had already paid a hefty sum to similar agents months earlier, …