{"id":198813,"date":"2025-05-26T00:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T22:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-most-kenyan-youth-see-govt-as-failing-on-their-top-priorities\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T00:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T22:52:20","slug":"kenya-most-kenyan-youth-see-govt-as-failing-on-their-top-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-most-kenyan-youth-see-govt-as-failing-on-their-top-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Most Kenyan Youth See Govt As Failing On Their Top Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">More than four in 10 young citizens say they have considered emigrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenyan youth (aged 18-35) have more education than their elders. Eight in 10 (80%) have secondary or post-secondary qualifications, compared to 43%-58% among older cohorts.<\/li>\n<li>However, youth are also more likely to be unemployed: 43% say they are looking for work, compared to 23%-32% of the middle-aged. o Aside from the country&#8217;s general economic situation and scarcity of jobs, young respondents cite a lack of&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505230295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than four in 10 young citizens say they have considered emigrating. Key findings Kenyan youth (aged 18-35) have more education than their elders. Eight in 10 (80%) have secondary or post-secondary qualifications, compared to 43%-58% among older cohorts. However, youth are also more likely to be unemployed: 43% say they are looking for work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,21944,4357,4688,430,4524,257,12200,254,7319,6276],"class_list":["post-198813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-failing","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-priorities","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}