Dar es Salaam, Dec. 29 -- THE Zanzibar government has vowed to seriously address unemployment as the rate jumped to 19.6 percent last year from 14.3 percent in 2014.

The authorities said it was a devastating report driving them to take serious measures to address.

“Unemployment is a global problem, but let us focus on workable measures that will ensure our young people are employed,” Mr Mudrik Ramadhan Soraga- State Minister, Presidents Office- Labour, Economy and Investments said when he officiated the launch of the 2020/2021 Integrated labour Force survey results for Zanzibar.

He said the results from the survey, displayed yesterday at Madinat al Bahri, show that unemployment rate among young people has reached 27.4 perce...