Young people must participate in nation building, development – Coalition

The Civil Society Coalition for the African Continental Free Trade Area (CSCAfCFTA) has urged young people to participate actively in Africa’s building and development.

The Coalition urged the youth to help rebuild more equitable, just and inclusive nations and space for young people on the continent.

This is because young people are the ones with solutions to the social, economic, and political ills of the continent.

This is contained in a press release from the Coalition signed by Dr. Prince Emmanuel Brown, its CEO, and copied to the Ghana News Agency on the commemoration of this year’s Africa Youth Month in the month of November.

The Africa Youth Month was instituted by the Africa Union in 2006 in line with the African Youth Charter, which is commemorated on November 1 every year.

The Day serves as an opportunity for all African locals and in the diaspora to reflect, arise and contribute towards promoting the cause of integration and coexistence within the continent and beyond.

Also, it is to chart a new course for fast-tracking and enforcing some political strategies, conventions, treaties and policies that would bring about transformation, growth and development in each member state within the continent.

The CSCAFCFTA admonished African youth to use the commemoration mandated by the Youth Division of the African Union Commission to challenge the barriers to meaningful youth engagement on the continent.

“Let us all join hands together this year as one to achieve the theme of this year celebration … let all the African youths get to know that we are all involved,” the statement added.