Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Encouraging girls to stay in school is one of the most effective ways of preventing teenage pregnancy, according to education and sexual and reproductive health experts.nThey argue that classrooms remain one of the strongest protective environments for adolescent girls. Eva Nakimuli, Programme Officer at …
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Boda boda, bus, truck and taxi leaders to also support delivery of The Union products in new menstrual health campaign Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Union Transport Alliance (The Union) has been hailed for launching a campaign against ‘period poverty’ that will help address high countrywide …
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SSENOGA: We realised that we don’t have quality sanitary pads at an affordable price in Uganda. After long research and study, we came up with Union Sanitary Pads under a campaign, Kili Clear Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It’s an age-old story in Uganda. Thousands of girls and …
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These losses span direct health system costs, out-of-pocket expenses for young people and their families, and lost opportunities in earnings, productivity and future potential COMMENT | ANNE GITHUKU-SHONGWE | This year’s International Day of the African Child, I ask us to consider her. She was fifteen years old, …
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Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Anne Alan Sizomu, Programs Specialist at UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) Uganda has indicated that teenage pregnancy in the country is driven by a shifting and complex mix of vulnerabilities that vary across regions, rather than a single cause. “While early marriage was once …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Women in West Nile and refugee settlements across the region say digital spaces remain unsafe, with many struggling to cope with online harassment, fraud, and abuse, particularly on social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Alice Salua, a refugee women leader, says several women …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Joseline Namutebi, a visually impaired student, is among the 35,000 adolescent girls whose lives have been transformed by the Girls Empowering Girls (GEG) program, which recently concluded in Kampala. Namutebi, a learner at St. Francis Secondary School for the Blind, shared her story during the …
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Jinja, Uganda | URN | In the modest kitchens of Akola Academy, near the shores of the River Nile at Busowoko village in Jinja, the scent of chicken and slow-cooking stews fills the air as young women in white and black uniforms work with calm precision. Not long ago, many …
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Boys Team results 1. South Africa -22 2. Kenya +13 3. Morocco +18 4. Uganda +25 5. Zimbabwe +27 6. Zambia +33 7. Mauritius +49 8. Namibia +52 9. Botswana +55 10. Ghana +76 11. Egypt +86 12. Tanzania +100 13. Cote D’Ivore +106 14. Tunisia +130 Girls team results …
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Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Menstruation continues to be a major, largely invisible barrier to girls’ education in Uganda, organisers and humanitarian agencies warned at a fundraising breakfast in Kampala on Tuesday. The event, convened by Ecobank Uganda Limited and the Uganda Red Cross Society under the “Keep a Girl in School” (KAGIS) initiative, called …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
