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 ...

In part three of our series, Life in Slum, our correspondent Jacinta Maria Kannyange investigates commercial sex workers that ...

(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 ...

KAMPALA, Oct 3 (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 ...

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.

In this 2013 file photo, a man plays chess on a giant board at Hyde Park in central Sydney. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz LONDON, July 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The true story of a teenager from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

An anti-human trafficking event sponsored by the John Paul II Justice and Peace Center in Kampala, Uganda. (Credit: Image courtesy of the center.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A Ugandan coalition of ...

LONDON (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 at the ...