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Unemployment dropped to 12.4% from 12.6% of the workforce in 4Q2016 from the previous quarter, a recent Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) report showed. The drop is attributed to a new wave of graduates joining the labor force, the report says. 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