To resolve this crisis, the government should build low-cost houses in urban areas. This can be done through public-private ...

Connie Frisbee Houde, of Albany, president of Jajja's Kids, visits with young boys who live in a home in Kampala, Uganda purchased through local donations in 2019. Diane Reiner, of Troy, a retired ...

The sprawling slums of Kampala are a far cry from the glitzy stage of Britain's Got Talent, where a group of Ugandan street kids will be performing in Sunday's grand finale of the hit UK television ...

LELAND, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Sometimes, 7th graders can change the lives of hundreds of kids thousands of miles away. A perfect example of that can be found in Leelanau County, where more than a ...

(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 ...

Residents of Namuwongo, Kampala City's second-largest slum, are calling on the government for urgent intervention to combat the scourge of malaria, which has claimed lives, disrupted education, and ...

(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 ...

The rapid and complex effects of urbanization are shifting energy production and consumption patterns on the African continent. Energy poverty is manifesting to an increasing degree and in diverse ...

Meet Phiona. She is an international chess champion who grew up in a slum in Uganda. Phiona Mutesi's inspiring true story will play out on the big screen in Disney's Queen of Katwe, starring Lupita ...