NEW figures show that, so far this year, 37,000 people have arrived in small boats on the beaches of Kent. So naturally, ...

Key components of the plan include the expansion of the Kampala Central Business District to Nakasero, Nakawa, and Kololo, and the construction of expressways to ease traffic congestion. Proposed ...

Motorists had to wait almost indefinitely in traffic gridlock as jubilant supporters of politicians decked in party colours ...

Paul Grondahl is the Opalka Endowed Director of the NYS Writers Institute at the University at Albany and a former Times ...

Jinja City is facing a potential land scandal after reports emerged that a public road in Masese II, commonly known as the Soweto slum, was allegedly sold to a private developer.The matter has ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Maternal health services including antenatal care have been shown to improve reproductive health outcomes of pregnant adolescents. However, most adolescent mothers attend their ...

In a bid to uplift the quality of life for young people living in ghetto communities, Reach A Hand Uganda has expanded the GN Trybe programme scope to the ghetto, and held an outreach in the slums of ...

Divya Khosla Kumar immersed herself in slum life for 20 days to prepare for a movie role, embracing daily chores and challenging conditions. She described the slum community as surprisingly happy and ...

Only a quarter of Ganganagar qualifies as a slum. It has been classified as a slum on paper just to avail redevelopment funds heek-by-jowl homes betray signs of comfortable lifestyles in this crucial ...

Urban farming is offering a lifeline to Kampala’s urban poor in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Vice Versa columnist Eva Nakato explores how slum dwellers, driven by hunger and lockdown job losses, ...

Recognized as a “Tree City of the World,” Uganda’s capital city of Kampala has set out on a journey to transform its urban forest into a resilient, native-rich landscape. What began as a response to ...