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Dreams Ugandan girls have after university

Single life can be a time of self-discovery and strength, not failure. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans In Uganda, many young women emerging from university carry vivid dreams of love, ...
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20-year-old went from being a teen mom to taking over as British High Commissioner to Uganda

Ahead of the International Day of the Girl Child this year, Jane Muya, a 20-year-old young mother from Northern Uganda, took over the role of British High Commissioner to Uganda for a day. The ...
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Let girls be...end early marriages

Michael Segwaya, the executive director of Absa Bank, speaking during the engagement, he explained that when girls remain in ...
Los Angeles Times

In coffee-producing Uganda, an emerging sisterhood wants more women involved

SIRONKO, Uganda — Meridah Nandudu envisioned a coffee sisterhood in Uganda, and the strategy for expanding it was simple: Pay a higher price per pound when a female grower took the beans to a ...
Reuters

Schools act as havens for girls fleeing FGM, marriage in Uganda

AMUDAT, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gertrude had barely hit puberty when her father agreed to marry her to an older man in exchange for 30 cows so she did something unusual in her Ugandan ...