In Gabon, several dozen unemployed graduates, united within the Coalition of Movements to Fight Unemployment and affiliated, spent the night from Monday to Tuesday in front of the National Assembly. Some of them have graduated ten years ago, but they are victims of a recruitment and competition freeze imposed for eight years by the deposed government, and the new government is slow to act despite promises.
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With our correspondent in Libreville, Yves-Laurent Goma
Four months ago, the head of state and general of GabonBrice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, made promises to these unemployed, but the government does not seem to be speeding up, hence the adrenaline rush.
Among the young people who came to express their discontent during the night of Monday to Tuesday, December 24, William Okouma, a graduate in logistics. He has been unemployed for 10 years: “ I was looking for work in this country, I was told that there was frost. Ten years later, I was told that I could no longer join the civil service. Why go through long studies so that in the end, my government tells me that I have to go sell sandwiches? »
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Diane Larissa Bivigu, 39, holds a master’s degree in African literature. “ We have no value in our families and yet we are graduates. We can no longer eat properly », Explains the graduate.
Making promises come true
On August 8, the president of the Transition, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, received the collective of the unemployed. He made 50 million FCFA available to them for investments in entrepreneurship, and also promised direct jobs.
Axel Junior Kombila Kombila calls for presidential promises to be fulfilled, “at namely, the 1,500 budget items, the 2,000 job opportunities in the service station sector, support in terms of equipment, but also in terms of the market for unemployed young people: unemployment will fall! “, he chants.
As night fell, the sit-in was suspended. The demonstrators promise to return after Christmas.
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