Tag: Uganda

‘I really want to see my children. They have been my strength’

"In September 2003, life was good. I was happy, healthy and my…

Akorfa Searyoh Akorfa Searyoh

The first Ugandan female aeronomical engineer to lead UNAIDS

Ugandan Winnie Byanyima, the head of the UK charity Oxfam and the…

Betty Bigombe: The woman who befriended a warlord

When Betty Bigombe was growing up in northern Uganda in the late…

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She wrote a poem about a vagina. It landed her in jail

How do women get men who are standing in the way of…

Alice McCool Alice McCool

DR Congo Ebola outbreak: Child in Uganda diagnosed with virus

A five-year-old boy in Uganda has been diagnosed with Ebola, the World…

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My family and I received death threats because I am an LGBT rights activist

In 2009 Ugandan MPs tried to introduce new laws against homosexuality that…

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The hidden lives of domestic workers in Kenya

In Uganda, young women are leaving their homes to try and find…

Nancy Kacungira Nancy Kacungira

Ugandan man becomes a lawyer to win family land back

A Ugandan man, who was only six years old when his father…

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Meet Mariam Nabatanzi, Uganda’s mother of 42 children

Mariam Nabatanzi gave birth to twins a year after she was married…

Elias Biryabarema Elias Biryabarema