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Can 100 images tell the stories of 50 million people? The ‘Demographica’ project aims to find out.
Kenya completed the colossal effort to conduct its decennial census and for the first time, it included a new gender category: intersex. Activists hope this will set a precedent for intersex rights in Kenya and around the globe.
With new efforts to eradicate the virus worldwide, and millions in US and foreign funding every year, some say the end of HIV/AIDS is near.
But those same efforts are having the opposite effect in Uganda, where poor planning, lack of donor accountability and chronic budget gaps are leaving thousands of patients without treatment and US and Ugandan policymakers washing their hands of responsibility.
Gay rights activists are celebrating after a Kenyan court ruled that subjecting suspected gay men to forced anal testing was illegal.
The landmark case marked a significant shift in sexual minority rights in the country, which activists hope will lead to decriminalizing homosexuality in Kenya and other countries in the region.
Violent demonstrations erupted across Nairobi, just one day after Kenyans elected their next president.
In Kenya’s Rift Valley, known as the breadbasket of the country, almost one-third of the population is suffering from acute malnutrition; an ongoing drought and recent infighting ahead of August’s presidential elections are only worsening an already dire situation.
Since its only external beam radiotherapy machine broke in April, Ugandans having been dying of treatable cancers.
Driven out of their homes and displaced in foreign land, many South Sudanese refugees are struggling to reconcile with the complexity of war and dislocation. For some, that means blaming opposing tribes for the conflict. Still others refuse to cast blame on rival ethnic groups, believing that peace beyond those divisions remains possible in South Sudan.
For researchers in Uganda — a country that has experienced five Ebola outbreaks — the threat of the disease that kills between 50 and 90 percent of all those infected, isn’t just a possibility pulled from 1995 bestseller, "The Hot Zone." For them, another outbreak of Ebola is almost certain.
Luckily, so is finding a cure.
More than a dozen armed police officers shut down Uganda’s fifth annual gay pride celebration on Saturday — the second major government crackdown on the gay community since August.
A small group of architects, designers and engineers at Kounkuey Design Initiative decided to combine their expertise in urban planning, sustainable design and community outreach to solve the grand challenge of preventing flooding in Kibera — and hopefully beyond.
An American pastor is publicly appealing for donations after experiencing “major financial hardship” as the result of a lawsuit in which he is accused of inciting violence and discrimination against the Ugandan gay community.
Members of the Ugandan lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community celebrated their fourth annual Pride Uganda festival this weekend, defying strict laws criminalizing homosexuality with up to 14 years in jail.
Tech guru Erik Hersman aims to change the world by changing information flow from “top down” to “all around.”
Few dare to dispute the 1994 Rwandan genocide that left 800,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands more injured. But a St. Paul lawyer is one of those few.