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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
Changing rainfall patterns have led to increasingly frequent flooding in western Uganda’s Kasese district, destroying farmers’ homes and fields. The damage is exacerbated by the loss of tree cover, as ...
Uganda has reaffirmed its position as a regional and global champion on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda during the Women Uganda 2025+ Exhibition and Knowledge Fair, held to commemorate 25 ...
(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 ...
There have been many tales of kindness to Hurricane Katrina's victims. But not like this one. On Thanksgiving Day, the New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote about the women of Kireka, a slum clinging to ...
In a recent study published in Health Care for Women International, researchers explore the impact of transcendental meditation (TM), a technique using a mantra for deep relaxation and heightened ...