Uganda is one of Africa’s top two coffee producers, exporting more than 6 million bags of coffee between September 2023 and August 2024, accounting for $1.3 billion in earnings.

In Uganda, a 2020 survey by U.N.-backed local authorities found that 95% of women and girls had experienced physical or sexual violence, or both, after turning 15.

Women market vendors, the backbone of Uganda’s food supply and local economies, are demanding urgent action to address unsafe ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – The Greater Contribution organization is helping empower women in Uganda with a new fundraiser set for July 7. Below is a press release on the organization's newest ...

Some women have given birth to dozens of children. One woman (maybe two) birthed nearly 70 children on her own.

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA SIRONKO, Uganda (AP) — Meridah Nandudu envisioned a coffee sisterhood in Uganda, and the strategy for expanding it was simple: Pay a higher price per kilogram when a female… ...

A female business owner in Uganda wanted to create a coffee sisterhood. She knew that women in one of Africa's largest producers did the bulk of the “donkey work” and that men in the largely ...