Erisafan Khayiki, 80, whose feet are so swollen they hurt just to place them on the floor, grimaces in pain as he tries to get out of bed with the help of his wife, Maria Kimono, 69, at their home in ...

MBALE, eastern Uganda — Meridah Nandudu brews a medium roast coffee at the headquarters of Bayaaya Specialty Coffee, a company she founded and runs. "Medium roast is my favorite," she says, taking a ...

Small scale rural farming is a challenging occupation for men and women alike. However, women face more constraints to income generation through agriculture than men. Thank you for reading ...

LIRA, Uganda (AP) — The bicycle parked in Lucy Abalo’s compound doesn’t belong to her. Any one of the hundreds of people in her village can show up and ask to use it. A man might wish to take his ...

With some education and training, a woman in Uganda defies cultural norms and starts up her own coffee business. But she ruffled feathers in the process by purchasing coffee beans only from women ...

NABALANGA, Uganda (AP) — Look closely and you will see them. Atop dirt floors in dim mud huts. At a stream on an arduous walk for water. Beneath church steeples and leaking roofs and a brilliant sun.