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, Uganda – Under a tarpaulin tent pitched in the world’s largest refugee settlement, a pair of newborn twins is cause for celebration. “They ...
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 ...
KAMPALA, Uganda – Bella Nshimirimana fled Burundi alone in 2011. Her husband, an opposition party activist, had already escaped the country a year earlier after ...
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 ...
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, ...
FOR days 13-year-old Yayo Tangko and her four younger siblings trekked alone from South Sudan to Uganda, a country to the south.
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 ...
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 ...
A civil society lawsuit seeking to compel the Ugandan government to teach sexual education in schools goes before a Kampala Court this Wednesday. Advocates hope ...
KAMPALA, Uganda – Ugandan academic and activist Dr. Stella Nyanzi, 42, is no stranger to controversy. In 2016 she undressed and posted images and a ...