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State in the right direction, but more needs to be done

By By Ken Opalo | May. 3, 2014

By Ken Opalo

The scenes witnessed in Nairobi at the Qatar Airways job recruitment event on April 19th said it all: An embarrassingly large number of Kenyan youth are unemployed and desperate for just about any job.

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