PATRICK ONEN

Ugandan human rights activist Kennedy Pius reads a letter from USAID on his laptop at home in Kampala, Uganda, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)
Uganda’s LGBTQ community faces anxiety and uncertainty after U.S. aid freeze
A non-profit organization supporting LGBTQ people in Uganda says its work is being threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign aid.
 
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, third left, gestures as he talks with refugees at Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement in Kamwenge District, Uganda, on Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/ Patrick Onen)
Uganda struggles to feed more than 1.7 million refugees as international support dwindles
Many refugees in Uganda are struggling to get by without the food assistance they once depended on. In a refugee settlement in the country’s southwest, many residents face hunger as funding for refugees has fallen over the years, causing drastic cuts in food rations.
 
Members of the public gather for a funeral service of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei ahead of her burial in Kapkoros, Bukwo District, Uganda Saturday, Sept. 14. 2024. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)
Ugandan Olympic athlete who died after her partner set her on fire gets a military funeral
Thousands of mourners in Uganda have been paying their respects to Rebecca Cheptegei. The Olympic athlete was honored Saturday with a military funeral. She died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire.
 
CORRECTS THE YEAR TO 2024 - Ugandan youths perform an amateur wrestling tangle in the soft mud in Kampala, Uganda Wednesday, March 20, 2024. The open-air training sessions, complete with an announcer and a referee, imitate the pro wrestling contests the youth regularly see on television. While a pair tangles inside the ring, made with bamboo poles strung with sisal rope, others standing ringside cheer feints and muscular shows of strength. (AP Photo/Patrick Onen)
Young Ugandans tangle in the mud. They dream of becoming professional wrestlers
A bamboo-lined wrestling ring in rural Uganda has captured the attention of some American stars and fans of the sport.
 
A farmer cuts down a banana plant, at her farm, in Kiwenda village, Busukuma, Wakiso District, Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. The decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience to the farmer who must then uproot it and lay its dismembered parts as mulch. A Ugandan company is buying banana stems in a business that turns fiber into attractive handicrafts. The idea is innovative as well as sustainable in this East African country that’s literally a banana republic. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)
A Ugandan business turns banana fiber into sustainable handicrafts
A decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience to the farmer who must uproot it and lay its dismembered parts as mulch. Too many of them in a banana plantation means an extra cost of hiring manual labor.