Uganda, Nov. 18 -- At least 41 percent of youth, which represents 9.3 million aged between 18 and 30 years are not engaged in any productive activity, according to findings contained in the Uganda National Labour Force Survey.

The findings compiled by Uganda Bureau of Statistic (Ubos), indicate that the 9.3 million youth are neither in education, employment or receiving training.

Youth unemployment remains a serious challenge to Uganda, which has forced government to recently concede that the level of the country's growth was not matching up with job creation.

The survey also found that 40 percent of children, which represents about 6.2 million aged between 5 and 17 years were engaged in child labour excluding household chores while 40...