Mr. Van Der Klaauw, I want to ask your opinion on the long-term effect in Burundi. In your opening comments you mentioned that private sector spending is down, unemployment is rising, and the government debt is also increasing.
We know 300,000 Burundians are leaving. Half of them are ending up in Tanzania, and a high percentage of those who are going are youth who are under 17 years old. Is that correct?
In that regard, you have youth inside the country who are being radicalized or being used to support the government by violent means and you have a large proportion of the youth leaving the country. Obviously, there's going to be a void for the next generation.
I don't know what the education system is right now in Burundi. I'm sure the universities are closed. Even if you talk about the most basic professions that any country needs, whether it be physicians, dentists, skilled tradespeople, it seems to me that one generation is completely being wiped out. In terms of the long-term prospects of Burundi, if in five or 10 years from now you tend to bring peace to the situation, you're going to have a huge gap, and economically that's going to be a problem, going long-term.
Would it be ideal, in some of the camps that are surrounding Burundi where Burundian youth are fleeing, or would it be possible to set up some education system, in the event that tomorrow peace breaks out and they can return, whereby although they would still be behind a bit, at least the gap would not be so much that one generation would not be able to contribute to the economy of the country?