Youth

EL PASO, Texas — Fueled by rapid spread of the coronavirus among those under 40, El Paso public health leaders reported a pandemic record 441 new cases on Sunday. Following a week that saw 29 deaths, the start of the new week brought no additional fatalities. The death toll remained at 179. With Sunday's huge spike in…

Dr. Teresa Frankovich, Humboldt County’s public health officer, took numerous questions from local reporters on various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic today — reopening, masking, bad kinds of hand sanitizers and more — and the county has released her answers to those questions in the video above.Below: A rough summary of questions asked and answers…

South Africa needs young activists who will be prepared to stand and be counted, writes Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize.In September 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa led a high level multi-party debate in Parliament, the outcome of which was an adoption of the Emergency Response Action…

Former president Jacob Zuma. Former president Jacob Zuma says South Africa's youth needs to debate their past, present and future more. He has called on young people to assess whether the democracy achieved is sufficient or if more work needs to be done.Zuma says radical economic transformation has to happen to rid South Africa of its…

President Cyril Ramaphosa says there must be life beyond Covid-19.This year marks 44 years since the Soweto uprising that claimed the lives of more than 200 people when thousands marched against the use of Afrikaans as a language of instruction.The National Youth Development Agency says Covid-19 will not derail their plans to invest in young…