KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...

Unemployment and poverty pose major challenges for President Museveni's seventh term, while his age and long rule prompt ...

With the EU now almost solely focused on anti-poverty projects, analysts say the main reason for the EU to pussyfoot around ...

In the town of Kamuli in eastern Uganda, Annabel Grossman meets women who have set up their own businesses – and explores how ...

You need money to make money. We have all heard this before, but what are people living in extreme poverty supposed to do with that? How do they make it out of poverty? That is the problem for almost ...

Leaders in Bukedi Sub-region have intensified efforts to fight household poverty through the promotion of coffee and cocoa growing, crops they believe could transform the region economically after ...

The government has launched a major campaign to increase coffee and cocoa production in the Bukedi sub-region as part of efforts to fight poverty and expand household incomes. The initiative, ...

What you need to know: Quick credit turns into debt trap for eastern Uganda's low-income earners. On a dusty roadside in eastern Uganda’s Budaka District, brightly coloured posters promise instant ...

The evictions have created a rare sense of relief for local road users in affected ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan rapper "Fresh Kid" has racked up hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube, won a U.S. music award and emerged victorious from a tussle with the government – all before his ...