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 ...

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 ...

WOOD RIVER — Jim Folsom believed that he and his family should shorten the space between their words and actions when doing missionary work. “I’m a father of seven and I own a business,” Folsom said. ...

Connie Frisbee Houde, left, board president, and Diane Reiner, founder of Jajja's Kids, provide a home, food, supervision and education to 20 former street kids from the slums of Kampala, Uganda.

SEQUIM — Remembered for her compassion, the late Ashlea Erwick of Sequim will now be associated with a mission in Africa where youth living in the slums can seek help for drug addiction. Her father, ...

LONDON, July 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The true story of a teenager from a Ugandan slum who transformed her life from corn seller to international chess player is to make its European premiere ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

(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 ...