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According to the International Labour Organisation’s World Employment and Social Outlook Trends: 2024 (WESO Trends) the unemployment rate and the jobs gap rate – which is the number of persons without employment who are interested in…

The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party on Monday swept all the five youth slots across the country. Youth elections are held through the electoral college system of voting. Under the system, only a few youth or voters, who…

President Yoweri Museveni has urged the youth to engage in income-generating activities instead of working hand to mouth as is the norm today. The president was speaking to youth in Sebei region in Eastern Uganda during his meeting with…

Youth must change their mindset about work and shift from working only for the stomach and focus on improving their incomes. President Yoweri Museveni who is also the NRM Presidential flag-bearer in the upcoming general elections urged the…

President Museveni has advised the youth from Lango sub-region that they must be able to create ideas that seek to manage the society and develop it, just like the NRM government has done. "I hear people say young people, but with the…

President Yoweri Museveni has called on the youths in particular and the country at large to engage in commercial agro-production and value addition as a means to eradicate household poverty. “Food production only for the stomach is not…

After dealing with the conceptual stages of the foundational policies that singled out Youths among the special interest groups in Uganda, right from the constituency assembly in my part one of these article series, part two is a trace of…

Parties are founded on the principle of common vision and interest of the promoters. An individual can moot the idea that later is sold to others who appreciate and coalesce around that vision to foster the nascent party. This calls for a…

Young people account for 40 percent of the world’s population – the largest youth generation in human history – but they are disproportionately affected by unemployment. This is a persistent problem. Approximately 30 percent of young people…

To all Ugandans, especially the Buzzukulu Greetings. I have concluded my countrywide tour of the 20 zones. My idea of using these 20 zones for sensitization comes from the 19 Independence Districts, which themselves had grown out of the 15…