KAYUNGA–When Mr Nathan Lubega, started experiencing COVID 19 like symptoms, his wife and some family members in Bugerere took him to the...
KAMPALA – A total of 3,000 vulnerable in and out-of-school girls in Kampala have every reason to smile after the government of...
KAMPALA – The Government of the Republic of Iceland has 17 March given UNICEF US$300,000 (approx. 1.1bn Uganda Shillings) to provide critical...
Sunday, 6 February marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for female genital mutilation (FGM). This year’s theme is “Accelerating Investment to...
KAMPALA — The UK’s Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Gender Equality, and Director of Education, Gender, and Equality, Alicia Herbert OBE, visited...
What if girls and women who are at risk of or have survived female genital mutilation (FGM) could receive the right services and...
Uganda has ended the world’s longest school closure, ordering millions of students back to the classroom after a gap of nearly two...
KAMPALA – As schools in Uganda prepare to reopen after a prolonged period, the UK and Ireland have partnered with UNICEF to...
Makerere University is taking the lead to ensure that quality education remains a priority as the country grapples with the consequences of...
A new report by WHO and UNICEF, released today on Global Handwashing Day, reveals that giving everyone in the world’s poorest countries...
KAMPALA – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, “more than 600 million children in countries not on academic break are still affected by...
UNICEF is increasingly concerned about the impact on children of a resurgence of Bubonic plague in the eastern province of Ituri in...
Medically reviewed by Valinda Riggins Nwadike, MD, MPH — Written by Scott Frothingham A period (menstruation) is normal vaginal bleeding that is...
What does feminist-informed (GBV) research during COVID mean to you? This was the question colleagues from Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM), Sexual...
Some years ago, researchers from a British university contacted the member agencies of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to ask them how...
As much as NGOs play an important role in changing people’s lives, an increase in fraud and corruption cases has left donors...
Uganda is one of the most diverse and dynamic countries in Africa. Rivers flow through the country’s south, spilling into and out...
Elvina Cheyech, a 22-year-old Senior Four student at Pokot Secondary School, Amudat District (approximately 420km Northeast of Kampala), last saw her baby...
As the world is gearing up for mass vaccination for their populations to slow the global COVID-19 pandemic, Sudan launched a different,...
Learners at all levels will have to wait a little bit longer after Dr. Diana Atwine, the permanent Secretary in Ministry of...