African leaders meeting in Uganda on Friday called for more peacekeepers for Somalia to defend against the extremist al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group that has been wreaking ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, visited Kenya once in 2015, a papal visit that left memorable moments in his interactions with the Catholic faithful and other Kenyans.The first Latin American leader ...

Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka’s exploits as founder and chief executive of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), an NGO that ...

Recent studies have highlighted the prevalence of various substances and the factors contributing to their use ...

The Delhi government will open subsidised canteens, named Atal Canteen after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, near major construction sites and slums for easy access to people in need ...

The blood-soaked bodies of a rag picker’s 29-year-old wife and 5-year-old son were found in a slum under Ayodhya city police station limits on Saturday. Police suspected that the ragpicker ...

Rourkela, Odisha’s industrial hub, is shaken by the discovery of a young man’s body in the STI Chowk slum of Raghunathpali on Sunday morning. The victim, whose throat was slit, has left residents in ...

In a major push to digitize citizen services, Uganda is set to roll out an Aadhaar-like digital identification system based on India-developed open-source technology and is exploring the adoption ...

The educational landscape in Uganda is dominated by entrenched challenges that continue to hold the country back from its development goals. Problems such as substandard education, weak facilities, ...

Paying obeisance to Lord Hanuman at a temple in her Shalimarbagh constituency on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, she inaugurated an automatic chapati maker that can roll out 1200 'roti' (bread ...

Some moments are bigger than the music — like this one, where Davido linked up with the brilliant kids from Chess in Slums Africa in New York. Davido is currently in New York for his ‘5ive ...

and having grown up in a slum made it very difficult. I was a rebellious person, and I once pulled the emergency chain on a train, and I was made to get down at a random station at night.