Amid heightened fears across the country, Dr Malang Faye, one of the country's youngest political science scholars and researchers, has outlined and critically analysed the causative factors of heightened insecurity. The young scholar, who doubles as a political science lecturer at the University of The Gambia, pinpointed these main causes, which have critically affected the country, into three or four factors: poverty, unemployment and the proliferation of illicit drugs. Providing context, especially as it relates to one of the causes (unemployment), the young political scientist stressed Gambia's youthful population, talking about the youth bulge, a demographic pattern where a country has unusually large number of children and young adults (typically 15 to 35 years) compared to the rest of the population. This often comes with mass unemployment, economic pressure and a greater risk of social and political inability. Notwithstanding, while highlighting the unfriendly nature of the environment and the volatility of the current situation, the young political scientist and lecturer of political science was quick to emphasise that such phenomena often characterise countries in transition.