The Global Youth Innovation Network, GYIN, recently brought 60 entrepreneurs to Benin to find ways to combat poverty. Sponsors of the event and the participants say the four-day helped the youth to build networks that will help them get closer to reaching this goal. Sam Olukoya reports from Cotonou.

 

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At just 25 years of age, Ratoejanahary Mirado runs a micro-enterprise making baskets and other products woven from raffia for sale in Madagascar and overseas.

Young talent from around the world exhibited their work at the Global Youth Innovation Workshop-Fair.