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 ...

Phiona Mutesi grew up in the slums of Kampala. She was three when her father died of AIDS. Years later, Mutesi dropped out of school to help her mother. Despite it all, the Ugandan teen managed to ...

In a two-room shack in the heart of a Kampala slum, a barefoot 5-year-old boy is being taught how to move his pawns. He is one of scores of Ugandan children following in the footsteps of a local girl ...

Youngsters from the slums around Kampala have continued to benefit from the efforts of former Uganda Cranes defender Henry Kalungi. After leaving the country to play for Charlotte Independence in the ...

KATWE, Uganda -- Seventeen-year-old Richard Buyinza stared at the chessboard in front of him, plotting what he hoped would be his killer move. Around him in the cramped, dimly lit room, more than a ...

Megan Walrod, volunteering with Girl Up Initiative Uganda, walks with Amanicia Spencer (left) and Namboowa Viola of Kampala, Uganda. Her six-month experience in 2017 helping to empower young women and ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Pope Francis arrived in Uganda on Friday on the second leg of his Africa pilgrimage, declaring Africa the “continent of hope” and honoring Uganda’s most-famous Christians. Francis ...

KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The bulldozers came after midnight, sirens wailing. Startled from their sleep, slum-dwellers on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala dashed for safety as ...