{"id":1716,"date":"2021-09-15T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T14:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive"},"modified":"2021-09-15T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T14:30:00","slug":"youths-urged-to-be-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive","title":{"rendered":"Youths urged to be productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Youths in Pagirinya refugee settlement have been urged to engage in productive activities during Covid-19 pandemic lock down. This came after hundreds of youths were seen to be focusing on sport activities all<\/p>\n<p>day long in the settlement. In an exclusive interview with Juba Monitor yesterday, Tiondi Bosco, a university student said most of the youths had become reluctant during the lock down.He<\/p>\n<p>said their idleness could increase the rate of crimes in the settlement. \u201cJust imagine from morning up to evening, these young able youths focus on sports,<\/p>\n<p>what will it give you,\u2019\u2019 he asked. Reports in Adjumani central police station indicated that there were overfifty cases of defilement for the past three months which was believed to be one of the<\/p>\n<p>negative impacts of coronavirus. Tiondi noted that engaging in productive activities like farming could make the youths busy and would greatly improve the lives of the youths.<\/p>\n<p>He asked school children to continue revising their books as they waited for the government to reopen learning institutions. \u201cAm urging the school girls to focus on reading their books,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. Youths in Pagirinya refugee settlement have been urged to engage in productive activities during Covid-19 pandemic lock down. This came after hundreds of youths were seen to be focusing on sport activities all day long in the settlement. In an exclusive interview with Juba Monitor yesterday, Tiondi Bosco, a university student said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,265,814,233,813],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-productive","tag-south-sudan","tag-youths"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Youths urged to be productive - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Youths in Pagirinya refugee settlement have been urged to engage in productive activities during Covid-19 pandemic lock ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Youths urged to be productive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Youths in Pagirinya refugee settlement have been urged to engage in productive activities during Covid-19 pandemic lock ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-15T14:19:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-15T14:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-614203517c96d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"477\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Youths urged to be productive\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-15T14:19:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-15T14:30:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-614203517c96d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"productive\",\"South-Sudan\",\"Youths\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/youths-urged-to-be-productive\",\"name\":\"Youths urged to be productive - 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