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 ...

Polls closed in Uganda on Thursday after a chaotic day of voting that took place under an internet blackout and with long ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

KATWE, Uganda (AP) — 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 ...

To say that it takes a village to raise a child is as true in an African village as it is in an American town. Especially if the children are orphans without hope of even a high school education. No ...

KAMPALA, Uganda, April 15 (UNHCR) - Few customers come to the simply named Beauty Salon in Kampala's Kisenyi slum, but for refugee owner Rosette Wabenga, it is still a dream come true. "I am a very ...