Uganda, May 1 -- Youth unemployment remains a serious challenge in Uganda, with 41 percent young people unemployed as per the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos) National Labour Force Survey 2021 report.

According to the survey, 9.3 million youth are neither in education, employment, or receiving training.

As the country celebrates World Labour Day, Ms Esther Davina Anyakun, the State minister for Labour, Employment, and Industrial Relations, explains in an interview that they are running the apprenticeship programme.

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Under the programme, graduates and non-graduates are placed in workplaces to get hands-on job training and experience, to equip them with skills needed in the job market.

"At the moment, we have...