While the unemployed suffer hunger and the uncertainty of the next meal, the employed suffer insecurity, the real fear and frustrations of being mugged and robbed by gangs of marauding unemployed youth, who terrorize the city streets and the residential areas day and night. Before venturing downtown, white tourists are warned to leave all valuable items in their hotel rooms, such as watches, bangles, wedding rings, earrings, eyeglasses, gold teeth, necklaces, handbags, expensive looking shoes, and anything that might tempt the numerous robbers in the city.
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One day, a white missionary tourist couple who did not heed, such warnings walked down a city center street marveling at the level of poverty and the numerous child beggars in the streets. Multitudes of children, some as young as
