Jobs- Africa's Challenge - Zambia President

African countries are facing the challenge of overcoming high unemployment rates that is impacting economic progress, says Zambian President, Michael Sata.

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  • Zambia:  We Can Do It - Sata

    The Times of Zambia, 29 January 2013

    PRESIDENT Michael Sata has said African leaders must work hard to resolve problems affecting the continent. read more »

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  • Our American Friend
    Jan 28 2013, 21:17

    Paul Kagame is president of Rwanda. The report mentions high unemployment in several African countries but does not indicate how high unemployment is. I have heard Zambia's unemployment level expressed as anywhere from 40 percent to 80 percent of able-bodied adults. No matter what the actual figure, that is way too high. Surely the government should be marshalling resources to get something for all these folks to do. Build roads, clean up the countryside, make needed structures for public use. Anything so they can earn a living and help the society move forward. Did anyone hear Mr. Sata's plans for doing this? Might they be shared with the nation?

  • ras sideeq
    Jan 29 2013, 17:34

    PRESIDENT ZUMA SIAD UNFORTUNATELY THE MOST NEGATIVE OF SPEAKERS ABOUT AFRICAS DEVELOPMENT WERE AFRICANS::: WOW!!!! THIS IS A LOW ESTEEM PROBLEM , SELF HATERS'; THEY WHOLE HEARTEDLY EMBRACED EVERYTHING THE WEST HAS RAMMED DOWN THIER THROATS'. THEY BELIEVE ALL THE STEREOTYPES N B.S.AND IS QUICK TO PUT A BLACK MAN DOWN. THESE SORTS OF PEOPLE ARE JUST LOST, THEY ARE LOYAL DOGS TO THE SINKING SHIP THEY WILL DIE WITH THIER MASTERS"". WHEN AFRICANS BELIEVE TRULY BELIEVE THAT AFRICA IS THE GENISI" WHERE IT ALL BEGAN; WHEN THEY LET GO OF THE THEORETICAL FANTASY THAT IS BEING ESPOUSED BY THE WEST AND TRULY EXAMINE THE EARTH. LOOK AT ALL THE STEREOTYPES AND THE PROPGANDA IN DEPTH AND YOU WILL SEE HOW TRULY FAR ADAVCED AFRICANS ARE." JUST FOR POSTERITY I WILL SAY THIS WHEN WE LOOK AT WHAT IS GOING ON TODAY IN MALI THIS HAPPENED FIVE CENTURIES AGO WITH THE SAME PLAYERS. HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF.. THE WEST ON SIDE LOOKING TO ENSLAVE AND THE WHITE ARABS THAT CAME TO TEACH AFRICANS WHO TO BE MUSLIMS ALSO TO ENSLAVE, EXACT SAME THING! THEY DID THE SAME THING BURNED THE UNIVERSITY OF TIMBUKTU TO THE GROUND. THIS IS WAHT THE MILITANTS THESE EXTREMIST WHO ARE NOT EVEN MUSLIMS DID RECENTLY; THEY CAN NOT EVEN READ AND WRIT? YET THEY WANT TO GO INTO AFRICA AND TEACH THE ORIGINAL MUSLIMS HOW TO BE MUSLIMS????. THESE MYTHS ABOUT AFRICA HAS DERIVED FROM THE WEST EVEN SPILLING OVER TO AFRICA WHERE NORTH AFRICANS DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE OF MIXED RACE HERITAGE THAT THIER FOREFATHERS WERE POLYGAMIST WHO HAD MANY WOMEN INCLUDING MANY WHITES AS THIER WIVES!!!!!!!THESE SO CALLED ARABS THINK THAT EBCAUSE THEY SEEM TO BE MORE IN NUMBERS THAT THERE ARE NOT ANY TRUE MUSLIMS OTHER THAN THEY. WHAT HAS HAPPENED DURING THE MEDIEVEL PERIOD THE WHITE ARABS THE COLOURED ARABS THE EUREOEANS DECIDED ON COMBINING THIER BOOKS SO THEY CO EXISTED AS ONE PRINCIPLED RELIGION WITH THIER HEGEMONS CONTROLING THE EARTH AS IT WAS THEN., EUROPE EXTENDED ITS INFLUINCE TO NORTH AMERICA WHILE THE NEW ARABS WENT TO ASIA. THIS IS JUST A PIECE OF IT. ONETHING IS TRUE THEY DECIDED TO COOPT THIER RELIGIONS TO DEMONISE THE OPRIGINAL PEOPLE PARTICIPANTS OF THE SCRIPTURES. AFRICANS EVEN THOUGH WAS PRIMARILY MUSLIM WAS IGNORED BY COLOURED MUSLIMS WHO SIDED WEITH WHITES TO ENSLAVE THIER OWN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. HENCE WE HEAR ALL THE PROOGANDA OF HOW ONE SUN WAS CURSED BY HSI FATHER TO BECOME A SLAVE FO THE OTHER. WHAT IS FANTASY ABOUT THAT IS THAT THE WHITE FATHER OCULD NOT HAVE A BLACK SON WITH MELANIN!!!!!! SO WE KNOW THAT TO BE FALSE! AS THE FATHER WAS BLACK WHO COULD HAVE A WHITE SON. THE STORY WAS CHANGED TO FIT THE PURPOSE AS WE SEE THOSE THAT STILL THINK THAT THE ZIONIST ARE TRULY THE ISRAELITES WHAT THEY SAY IS IS THIS HOW JEWS AND MUSLIMS LIVED TOGETHER IN EUROPE ??? YES THEY DID ,THAT,WAS DURING THE MOORISH PERIOD WHEN THE ISRAELITES FROM WEST AFRICA WERE PART OF THE EXPORT TO EUROPE AS THEY BOTH WERE MONOTHESEIST THEY WERE BOTH BLACK THEY LIVED HARMOPNIOUSLY. IF YOU VIEW SOME VERY EARLY PICTURES OF GERMAN SO CALLED H JEWS YOU WILL SEE SOME VERY ENLIGHETNING PHOTGRAPHS OF MIXED RACE ORTHODOX WHO PRIMARILY RESEMBLED BLACKS. AGAIN THIS IS ANOTHER STORY IF ONLY MY BROTHERS WOULD SEARCH THE RIGHT PLACES FOR KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING BLACK HISTORY. READ THE HISTORY OF BLACK AFRICANS WORLD WIDE WRITTEN PHOTGRAPHED BY AN ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO WAS A WRITER FROM JAMAICA DURING THE MARCUS GARVEY PERIOD. HE TRAVELED AND ESCAVATED THE PLANET WITH THE BEST, HE WROTE "FROM SUPERMAN TO MAN" J A ROGGERS THE GREAT SCHOLAR.