By Xinhua,
Dakar : The Senegalese authorities must actively seek a “definitive solution” to end numerous strikes besetting the education sector, National Youth Council President El Hadj Malick Diop has said, adding that the country’s future was vested in a well-educated young people.
“Our country cannot develop without an enterprising youth that is both educated and ambitious,” Malick Diop said Tuesday while presiding over an official ceremony launching celebrations to mark the Year of the African Youth in Dakar.
Referring to the “complexity” of problems that young people face in their daily life, the president of the National Youth Council said that “much remains to be done in this area, despite the many achievements that the country had accomplished,” according to the official Senegalese News Agency.
Indeed, young people continue to face a “high rate” of unemployment, “worrying” poverty levels, difficulties related to “an education system that is not in sync with current realities and at the same time where strikes are the order of the day,” said Malick Diop, who urged the government to rise up to the occasion.