News stories by Amy Fallon

DHAKA, Sep 29 (IPS) - Like the living room of any proud family, the one in Ajoy Roy's house boasts photos of the eldest son, Avijit.

KAMPONG SPEU PROVINCE, Sep 26 (IPS) - In Kampong Speu province, when the wet weather doesn't come, as in other parts of Cambodia, it can affect whether food goes on the dinner table.

KAMPALA, Uganda, Jul 25 (IPS) - Lying on a dirty bed in a crowded, squalid hostel in Kampala, emaciated Jovia, 29, managed a weak smile as a doctor delivered her a small green bottle containing a liquid.

KAMPALA, Jun 29 (IPS) - Patience*, a Ugandan maid, planned on taking her three-year-old son for polio immunization during the country's mass campaigns a year ago, until her landlord's wife told her a shocking myth.

KAMPALA, Uganda, Mar 09 (IPS) - Nearly two weeks after controversially winning a fifth term, it has emerged that Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed another repressive law which restricts the operations of thousands of NGOs working in the country.

KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb 16 (IPS) - After escaping the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region during which his father and two brothers were killed and his mother and sister displaced, Adam (named changed), began a new chapter. But it was a life "in limbo". Over a decade later, he remains trapped in a strange country where he struggles to prove his identity; cannot find work or receive financial support.

KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb 05 (IPS) - On October 2015, the day that Ugandan journalist Enoch Matovu, 25, was allegedly shot by the police for simply "doing my job", the police had "run out of tear gas", he claimed.

KAMPALA, Sep 18 (IPS) - Before she entered the Miss Uganda beauty contest, 24-year-old Fiona Nassaka was a farmer.

KAMPALA, Aug 23 (IPS) - Growing up with five brothers, soccer-mad Majidah Nantanda had half a team to compete against at home in Makindye, a suburb in Uganda's capital, Kampala. But at her school, in the 1990s, there were two sports rules: "Netball for the girls and football for the boys," recalls the 32-year-old, as she stands on the sidelines of a boy's game in Makindye.

KAMPALA, Aug 21 (IPS) - HIV/AIDS activists are adamant Uganda will not achieve an "AIDS-free generation" now a "backwards" HIV/AIDS Bill criminalising the "wilful and intentional" transmission of the disease has been signed into law.