(Reuters) - Nineteen-year-old Lydia Nantale makes her way home from work through the squalor of the Katanga Slum in central Kampala, Uganda's capital. But there's only time for a quick change of ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – When lawyer Shadrack Wambui was growing up in one of Nairobi’s slums, he vented his frustration at abusive police through boxing, cultivating discipline that helped him avoid ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Every evening on the outskirts of Mwiki, Kasarani, John Gicharu huffs and puffs with upcoming boxers at his Ruaraka ...

Across the stinking bay from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro sprawls the infamous Complexo da Maré, one of the largest and most violent of the city’s 500-odd slum communities. From the main ...

“Alfred shows his class by crushing the British champion with chilling ease.” Ghana’s Alfred Kotey had just stopped Scotland’s Drew Docherty to defend his WBO bantamweight title, on the Scot’s home ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 17 (Reuters) - Beneath a street lamp in one of Rio de Janeiro's slums, 19-year-old boxer Wanderson de Oliveira does pull-ups from a metal bar outside the Fight for Peace academy ...

Every evening on the outskirts of Mwiki, Kasarani, John Gicharu huffs and puffs with upcoming boxers at his Ruaraka Boxing Club (RBC), which he founded in 2015 after quitting professional boxing with ...