Mobilizing youth, silencing guns in Africa not choice but absolute necessity: UN official

Jerry Matthews Matjila (C, Front), South Africa's permanent representative to the United Nations and President of the UN Security Council for the month of October, addresses a Security Council meeting on peace and security in Africa at the UN headquarters in New York, on Oct. 2, 2019. Mobilizing youth and silencing the guns in Africa is not a choice but an absolute necessity, a senior UN official said on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)