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As South Africa prepares to commemorate 2025 Youth Month, the Department of Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities, in collaboration with the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC), has launched the 2025 Youth Month at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto, Johannesburg. Youth Month will be commemorated under the theme 'Skills for the Changing World - Empowering Youth for Meaningful Economic Participation.' Channel Africa's reporter Michael Mbewe spoke to Lerato Masondo, a young woman from Soweto, to get her thoughts on this event and the challenges faced by the youth at large.

As South Africa prepares to commemorate 2025 Youth Month, the Department of Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities, in collaboration with the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC), has launched the 2025 Youth Month at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto, Johannesburg. Youth Month will be commemorated under the theme 'Skills for the Changing World - Empowering Youth for Meaningful Economic Participation.' Channel Africa's reporter Michael Mbewe spoke to Lerato Masondo, a young woman from Soweto, to get her thoughts on this event and the challenges faced by the youth at large.

SA prepares to commemorate 2025 Youth Month

Kenyan and Ugandan rights activists recently detailed their detention and abuse during a recent trip to Tanzania. A trip to Dar es Salaam turned into a horrifying ordeal. Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan journalist Agather Atuhaire were abducted from their hotel rooms, brutalised, and subjected to days of physical and sexual abuse that they say left them scarred for life. Peter Ndoro spoke to Wanjeri Nderu, President of the International Society for Human Rights in charge of East Africa, as well as Neto Agostinho, Co-Leader of the United Green Movement Party and a member of the President Maraga 2027 team.

Kenyan and Ugandan rights activists recently detailed their detention and abuse during a recent trip to Tanzania. A trip to Dar es Salaam turned into a horrifying ordeal. Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan journalist Agather Atuhaire were abducted from their hotel rooms, brutalised, and subjected to days of physical and sexual abuse that they say left them scarred for life. Peter Ndoro spoke to Wanjeri Nderu, President of the International Society for Human Rights in charge of East Africa, as well as Neto Agostinho, Co-Leader of the United Green Movement Party and a member of the President Maraga 2027 team.

The cost of being a human rights activist in East Africa - Activists weigh in

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF have condemned an attack on a joint humanitarian convoy near Al Koma, North Darfur, which took place on Monday evening. 

Five members of the convoy were killed, and several more people were injured. Multiple trucks were burned, and critical humanitarian supplies were damaged. For more on this, Eva Hinds, Chief of Advocacy and Communication at UNICEF Sudan, spoke to Peer Ndoro.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF have condemned an attack on a joint humanitarian convoy near Al Koma, North Darfur, which took place on Monday evening.&nbsp;
Five members of the convoy were killed, and several more people were injured. Multiple trucks were burned, and critical humanitarian supplies were damaged. For more on this, Eva Hinds, Chief of Advocacy and Communication at UNICEF Sudan, spoke to Peer Ndoro.

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