Ugandan women fight their way out of the slums, dream of boxing glory


  • Boxing
  • Saturday, 24 Nov 2018

(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 clothes as her coach is waiting.

    Nantale is headed for the Rhino Boxing Club, the makeshift gym where she and a handful of other young pugilists are learning to pack their punches.

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