When Joyce Orishaba was 6, her life could not have been more different than it is now. She was an orphan in Uganda, “sleeping with nothing but a banana leaf over my shoulders to keep me warm,” ...

One hundred words. That’s all 17-year-old Joyce Orishaba of Rancho Bernardo was allowed to use to convey the most powerful memories in her life. And it got her published in the New York Times.

One tribe that has quite a set of unusual traditions is the Luo tribe also called Joluo or Jonagi/Onagi. This is a tribe in Uganda, Kenya and in Mara Region in northern Tanzania. People from this ...

February 6, 2009: First it was guns and gangs, now it s drought. For years the government s main worry in the Karamoja region was cattle-raiding by gangs with a lot of automatic weapons. Karamoja is ...

Uganda’s Indian community is lobbying to be recognised constitutionally as a tribe, leaving the country’s parliamentarians tied in knots and divided over the matter. Sanje Tanna, Uganda’s only ...

Media noted that most of the deserters from regular military units came from tribes in northern and eastern Uganda. Tribes in these regions have reported that their members serving in the military ...

Some of the children have yet to reach puberty. But they are fluent in rattling off the acronyms of war (RPG, LMG, SAM, SMG) and explaining just how these weapons work. Ranging in age from 7 to 18, ...