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 ...

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -When Zohran Mamdani inveighed against inequality and corruption during his underdog ...

In the first of a two-part series, experts warn that without urgent action, drug-resistant infections could cause millions of ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...