KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda’s capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender.

As the world marks the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, the urgency to confront violence against women and ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – More than 100 women die during childbirth each week in Uganda, a heartbreaking statistic that has energized activists to go to the Supreme Court in a bid to force the government ...

KAMPALA, Uganda More women are initiating divorces in Uganda, a conservative East African country where women are becoming empowered to leave a bad marriage in a way their mothers could not, rights ...

What emerges from this study is a more nuanced picture of Kampala’s informal economy. Women micro-entrepreneurs are not just ...

As tension mounted, South Africa’s Thami Jabavu punished Uganda’s star man Caesar Chandiga with a ruthless break-and-finish, flipping the momentum in favour of the hosts. With barely 10 minutes left ...

KAMPALA, Sept 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ida, 29, was six months pregnant when she suddenly felt abdominal pains and went to a government hospital in Kampala. Like all pregnant women in Uganda, ...

Young Ugandan ladies have become hot cakes in Kenyan hospitality industries especially in Western Kenya. Hotels and bars are slowly eliminating Kenyan ladies from customer services and replacing them ...

Over 1,000 women entrepreneurs across eight African countries, including Uganda, are set to benefit from the Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (IYBA-WE4A) programme -- a grant initiative designed to ...

Luxury jewelry brand Akola employs more than 170 women in Uganda who are living in extreme poverty. The company pays these women a living wage, giving women a pathway out of poverty and a road to a ...