Connie Frisbee Houde, of Albany, president of Jajja's Kids, visits with young boys who live in a home in Kampala, Uganda purchased through local donations in 2019. Diane Reiner, of Troy, a retired ...

KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The bulldozers came after midnight, sirens wailing. Startled from their sleep, slum-dwellers on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala dashed for safety as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO — A teenaged girl, who started in ...

A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still producing champions - but faces a daily struggle to survive. Run by chess coach ...

Meet the young woman who inspired the new Disney film "Queen of Katwe." — -- The first time Phiona Mutesi, 20, saw people playing chess, she thought it was people gambling. “I'd never seen it in ...

KATWE, Uganda — Seventeen-year-old Richard Buyinza stared at the chessboard in front of him, plotting what he hoped would be his killer move. Around him in the cramped, dimly lit room, more than a ...

Phiona Mutesi was simply searching for food when she stumbled upon Robert Katende teaching chess in her Uganda village – but what she found was a new life. "I never believed that this time would come, ...