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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: African Flight: When The Dream Turns Sour [Watch (HLS stream): African Flight: When The Dream Turns Sour](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Ab03ruEo.m3u8) (4:18)  _Published 2015-12-18. Last spring, soldiers of the Islamic State in Libya slaughtered 28 men. Their victims were not government soldiers or allies of Western countries. 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[ INAUDIBLE ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] Ethiopia has the fastest growing economy in the world. Africa as a whole is more prosperous now then at any other time in recent history. In each year more and more African migrants are fleeing for Europe contributing to a growing crisis. South Africa is doing so well. Why are so many Africans leaving? [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] The problem with sub Saharan Africa, is not growing fast enough to provide jobs for its building youth generation. They're putting their lives in the hands of smugglers to take them across the Sahara and then the Mediterranean. Not all of them make it. From outside it makes very little sense so many people, why would one risk their life with the chance that you may drown, or you may die crossing the Sahara, or you may be made prisoner In a very poor conditions in North African country. Why take such a chance. This issues not that there any other way from or that there any other way from other kind of basic needs. They rallying mainly partly because for opportunity. Because the continent is not generating the employment. That these young people are seeking. [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] If the future of young people is not secured, two things will happen in my opinion. One, we'll see much more people leaving the continent. And two, we'll see high level of instability on the continent. It will very much dent Africa's [ UNKNOWN ] It could be a really a trough of instability, because of young people who are not devoted [ MUSIC ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"African Flight: When The Dream Turns Sour","description":"Last spring, soldiers of the Islamic State in Libya slaughtered 28 men. Their victims were not government soldiers or allies of Western countries. 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