Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meet Lysandra, a Jamaican living in Uganda in East Africa. While there are many similarities between island life in Jamaica and ...

As a teenager living a semi-cloistered life in rural northwest Montana, James Reeves dreamed of exploring the world. But even in his wildest fantasies, he never imagined he'd one day be sitting in ...

On Day 2 of the Big Ten Championships for track and field in Nebraska, Oregon saw two athletes finish first in their qualification heats, and... Sounds of a 911 operator and sirens filled the ...

When Agnes Baitio fled fighting in Nimule, South Sudan, four years ago with her two children, she saved her family but lost everything else – her house, her income and her hope. Settling into a new ...

When Chylah Akello stepped off the plane in London four years ago, she felt a strange mix of familiarity and distance. This was, after all, the country where she had been born. And yet, everything ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Richard Lusimbo, an LGBTQ activist in Uganda, where the president has signed one of the toughest any-gay laws in the world. Uganda has passed one of the world's most ...

Kampala is urging tourists to keep coming despite a US ‘Do Not Travel’ warning, while the WHO estimates that Ebola cases ...

NAKIVALE, Uganda, March 22 (UNHCR) - Iraguha Nkuriza Ferecian casts carefully measures chemicals into three large metal vats of scummy water from Lake Nakivale, then climbs down a rickety ladder, ...

JINJA, Uganda — Simon Tigawalana dreamed for years of doing something about the dirt floors in his small house, blaming them for making his family sick. But in a rural area in one of the world's ...