Fired After Forced HIV Tests, Ugandan Women Head to Court
KAMPALA, Uganda – After three years of unemployment, Alen*, 27, was relieved to land a job. She was working as a cleaner for a Chinese ...
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What it's like to be intersex in Uganda
In Uganda, “many are not free to speak about the development of their bodies, especially if they have been tampered with through invasive surgeries and ...
Ugandans take Chinese firm to court in latest HIV workplace battle
KAMPALA, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Kato was called into his manager's office, the Ugandan driver assumed he would be sent on an ...
East Africa's youth are in a race to acquire skills for a job market that's left many behind
On weekends, Faraji Modibo usually enjoys watching football in a video “banda” or hall, a very simple room with televisions often perched on drink crates, ...
Bidi Bidi’s Babies: Giving Birth in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
BIDI BIDI, Uganda – Under a tarpaulin tent pitched in the world’s largest refugee settlement, a pair of newborn twins is cause for celebration. “They ...
Uganda's lessons for Family Planning Summit
At the first London Summit on Family Planning in 2012, Uganda was among the 36 developing countries to set out ambitious goals for themselves. President ...
How Uganda’s Refugee Woman of the Year Gives ‘Voice to the Voiceless’
KAMPALA, Uganda – Bella Nshimirimana fled Burundi alone in 2011. Her husband, an opposition party activist, had already escaped the country a year earlier after ...
School of Refugees
Sometimes Prossy, a 13-year-old girl from South Sudan now living in Uganda, has her lessons under a tree instead of in a classroom, or sits ...
Q&A: Uganda's refugee minister seeks solidarity in first-of-its-kind summit
As a former refugee in Kenya, Musa Francis Ecweru often reflects on the generosity of his once-host nation. Today, as Uganda’s state minister for relief, ...
A long walk to safety for child refugees
FOR days 13-year-old Yayo Tangko and her four younger siblings trekked alone from South Sudan to Uganda, a country to the south.
Ugandan medics seek Libya payday
After six years of desperately searching for a “greener pasture”, Moses, a poorly paid Ugandan medical laboratory technician sick of struggling to put food on ...
Fighting back
Growing up in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, Helen Baleke considered herself the "champ of the streets". At least, until she was assaulted at the ...
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