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Both groups are led by impoverished youths, angry at official indifference to low living standards, with a majority of Nigerians living on less than two dollars per day since the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) took power following the end of military rule in 1999.
That sour sense of rejection, felt by many confused youths, turns for some into a fierce desire for vengeance.
More recently, Mr. Brown extended the PPP principle to comprise not just the provision of services by private companies, but also by a "third," voluntary or charitable, sector.Britain's "New Deal" to bring long-term unemployed youths into work includes the use of voluntary organisations as a vehicle to future employment.
A large majority of Arab youths, around 70%, say that they are most influenced by parents, family, and religion, whereas only about a third report that elite groups – writers, business leaders, community leaders, and media outlets – have any influence on their outlook on life.
In successful crackdowns, police focus first on the tools of violence, cutting the flow of illegal handguns to youths.
None of the youths I talked to could give any clear explanation for their actions, except to say that an Islamic schoolteacher known as Ustadz So had recruited them into a shadowy militant movement.
The Catalyst Foundation’s curriculum is likely to include universal themes to prompt youths from very different national, religious, and cultural backgrounds to interact with one another, online or in person, by sharing their own insights and experiences.
When police raided one place, copies emerged from other secure depots, to be sold in the streets by kamikaze youths who darted in and out of traffic offering the subversive contraband.
Subversive youths in Hitler’s Germany – the “Swing Jugend” – secretly listened to jazz.
While in the 1990s American youths were inventing dotcoms in their garages, European youths spent years enjoying a worry-free, tuition-free and pampered life in publicly funded universities, paid for by taxpayers.
In a country where almost half the population is under 18, and where eligibility to begins at 15, many youths expect a wider and freer range of books, movies, and magazines as well as moves to restore satellite dishes, outlawed in the mid-90s by parliament because they featured foreign news, American soap operas, and western music videos.
In the Niger delta, where oil production and official neglect have devastated the environment and wrecked livelihoods, enraged youths took to the swamps and led an insurgency against Federal troops.
But with support from global-governance institutions and programs administered by nongovernmental organizations such as the UoPeople and the IIE, those displaced youths could now gain an education lifeline.
A US invasion of Iraq, with large numbers of civilian casualties, would deepen the sense of victimization and defeat felt by Arab youths and make them inclined to join Al Qaeda-style holy war cells.
Small wonder some Arab youths became radicalized.
The long-term unemployed, youths who never had a steady job, temporary employees, and underground workers, have little opportunity to invest in job skills and training.
Rather than focus on creating scenarios that showed Israelis – even Israeli kids – in a positive light, they wanted to focus on showing Palestinian culture in a positive light, portraying Palestinian youths as role models, and providing images to kids that offered alternatives to violence.
If current trends persist, by 2030, more than 800 million young people – half of the world’s youths – will leave school without the basic skills necessary for the modern labor market.
ZANU terrorism was conducted by rogue elements among the veterans of Zimbabwe's war of independence two decades ago, as well as by government militiamen and youths, all of whom were actively aided by the police.
The cheerleaders’ true sparring partners today are not rock-throwing youths but their fellow intellectuals.
Even if they overcome their reservations and back Ribadu or Buhari, and either candidate goes on to beat Jonathan at the polls, angry Delta youths could respond with fresh violence against oil workers, disrupting production.
In the state of Gujarat, four Dalit youths caught skinning a cow were stripped, tied, and beaten with iron rods by cow vigilantes who accused them of killing the animal (they had not).
They are also contested by stone-throwing youths in the streets of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir’s largest city, and rifle-wielding Maoists in the forests of Chhattisgarh.
Africa’s aged ruling elites ignore the needs of youths at their peril.
Crisis Text Line, meanwhile, uses machine learning to analyze words and phrases associated with youths in crisis through text messages, and triages messages to ensure at-risk users get help fast.
Grubach was understanding enough to see that an arrest like this has no more significance than an attack carried out on the street by some youths who are not kept under proper control.
Frances had stood supporting herself, by the back of a chair, during this dialogue, catching, in breathless anxiety, every syllable as it was uttered; her color changed rapidly; her limbs shook under her; until, with desperate resolution, she inquired,-"Is any officer hurt on - the - on either side?""Yes," answered the man, cavalierly, "these Southern youths are so full of mettle, that it's seldom we fight but one or two gets knocked over; one of the wounded, who came up before the troops, told me that Captain Singleton was killed, and Major Dunwoodie - "Frances heard no more, but fell lifeless in the chair behind her.
Behind him rode a black in livery, and two youths in uniform brought up the rear.
And so, since she appeared in public, and her beauty came to be seen openly, I could not well tell you how many rich youths, gentlemen and peasants, have adopted the costume of Chrysostom, and go about these fields making love to her.
I fell to the lot of a Venetian renegade who, when a cabin boy on board a ship, had been taken by Uchali and was so much beloved by him that he became one of his most favoured youths.
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