A new study has revealed alarmingly high levels of depression, suicidal thoughts and substance use among young women living in Kampala's urban slums, exposing what researchers describe as a largely ...
(NEW YORK) — The first time Phiona Mutesi, 20, saw people playing chess, she thought it was people gambling. “I’d never seen it in my life and usually in Uganda, it was always, like, families that are ...
Fighting adversity and faced with extreme poverty in the Kampala urban slum of Nakawa, was no deterrent for Rugby Africa Unstoppable ( <a id="d6cb5418-506a-3ab0-a1ec ...
Kids in a Uganda slum learn that chess has a lot in common with life. You can't change the way you start out — but you can decide your next move. In the far corner of a dead-end dirt lane in Katwe, ...
The sprawling slums of Kampala are a far cry from the glitzy stage of Britain's Got Talent, where a group of Ugandan street kids will be performing in Sunday's grand finale of the hit UK television ...
(Reuters) - Nineteen-year-old Lydia Nantale makes her way home from work through the squalor of the Katanga Slum in central Kampala, Uganda's capital. But there's only time for a quick change of ...
Residents of Namuwongo, Kampala City's second-largest slum, are calling on the government for urgent intervention to combat the scourge of malaria, which has claimed lives, disrupted education, and ...