{"id":241375,"date":"2026-08-18T08:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-unemployment-pessimism-and-rising-interest-in-emigration-mark-cameroons-youth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:27:06","slug":"cameroon-unemployment-pessimism-and-rising-interest-in-emigration-mark-cameroons-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-unemployment-pessimism-and-rising-interest-in-emigration-mark-cameroons-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Unemployment, Pessimism, and Rising Interest in Emigration Mark Cameroon&#8217;s Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Young citizens say the government is failing on key priorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cameroonian youth (aged 18-35) have more education than previous generations. Eight in 10 (80%) have at least some secondary schooling, compared to 44%-72% among older cohorts.<\/li>\n<li>But they are also more likely to be unemployed. More than one-third (36%) of youth say they are unemployed and looking for work, compared to 11%-28% of middle aged cohorts.<\/li>\n<li>o Youth cite inadequate training (23%), a mismatch between educational&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608180012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young citizens say the government is failing on key priorities. Key findings Cameroonian youth (aged 18-35) have more education than previous generations. Eight in 10 (80%) have at least some secondary schooling, compared to 44%-72% among older cohorts. But they are also more likely to be unemployed. More than one-third (36%) of youth say they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241376,"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":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,4331,21987,4378,9346,257,31865,6678,254,4749,6276],"class_list":["post-241375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-emigration","tag-interest","tag-mark","tag-news","tag-pessimism","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unemployment","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\/241375","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}