The rest of the residents are at home, relaxing, trying to clean their houses, and throwing all the resulting trash into the ...

We take you on a journey through Kamwokya, Kiyembe, and Kimombasa, some of the city’s slums, and delve into the daily ...

LONDON, July 13 (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 ...

(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 (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 safety as ...

WOOD RIVER — Jim Folsom believed that he and his family should shorten the space between their words and actions when doing missionary work. “I’m a father of seven and I own a business,” Folsom said. ...

KATWE, Uganda -- Seventeen-year-old Richard Buyinza stared at the chessboard in front of him, plotting what he hoped would be his killer move. Around him in the cramped, dimly lit room, more than a ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Pope Francis arrived in Uganda on Friday on the second leg of his Africa pilgrimage, declaring Africa the “continent of hope” and honoring Uganda’s most-famous Christians. Francis ...

Phiona Mutesi was simply searching for food when she stumbled upon Robert Katende teaching chess in her Uganda village – but what she found was a new life. "I never believed that this time would come, ...

The colors and rhythms of life in the slums of Uganda are what set “Queen of Katwe” apart from other underdog chess movies. While Hollywood has long celebrated chess as a great equalizer across race ...

In a fireside room on Northwest University’s Kirkland campus, Phiona Mutesi stood up and accepted a title she was a little ambivalent about: president of the school’s just-formed chess club. She had ...