Kafolo, Ivory Coast, Oct 2, 2024 (AFP) - Ivory Coast employs troops, jobs to counter armed militants

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2024-10-02

For months after presumed jihadists attacked it in 2020, Kafolo in northern Ivory Coast resembled a ghost town. Four years later, it is flourishing again, thanks in part to a double-pronged government plan -- boosting security on the one hand, tackling poverty and youth unemployment on the other. Fourteen soldiers were killed in the first assault in June 2020, two others in March the year after. After that, Kafolo's fields were deserted, its shop......

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