From leading Uganda’s first-ever women’s boxing team to becoming the first female general secretary of the Africa Boxing Union (ABU) and securing a seat on the World Boxing Council (WBC), Maureen ...

When boxers Eridadi Mukwanga and Leo Rwabwogo bagged silver and bronze respectively in 1968 during the Olympics in Mexico City, they laid a landmark. These were the first two medals that Uganda had ...

Kampala — FORMER members of the now defunct boxing federation of countries in east, central and southern Africa - FESCAABA - have supported Uganda's bid to host an Olympic qualifier in Kampala early ...

In Uganda, Shakib Lutaaya, aka Shakib Cham, swayed his wife Zari and several celebs into the Lugogo Indoor Arena, before he subdued media personality JK Kazoora in two rounds on October 12. Despite ...

The Uganda boxing fraternity has commended the legacy of former Uganda Boxing Federation (UBF) president Issa Kamoga, who passed away on Friday, October 9. Kamoga, a sportsman, educationist, and ...

The National Sports Act 2023 requires each sports discipline to be governed by one federation or association. While most sports are familiar with the arrangement, the law is forcing a marriage between ...

The club based in Bwaise, a slum in Uganda's capital Kampala, serves as a training ground for aspiring boxers who want to compete for the national team and as a lifeline for young people trying to ...

(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 ...

Rukare, also the interim president of the Commonwealth Games Sports Federation, cited that weightlifters had to pay license fees for the Riyadh Games. “Hadn’t we known this on time, they would have ...

After finishing out her boxing year in ‘Grand Style’ on December 8, 2018, ‘The First Lady’ Cecilia Braekhus travelled to Uganda to open the ‘First Lady Primary School, a high school located just ...

(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 ...