Uganda.(Country Profile)(Country overview)

From: New Internationalist | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Tourism of the more adventurous kind may be increasingly common--tracking mountain gorillas near the border with Rwanda and DR Congo, or rafting on the Nile, which starts its long journey to the Mediterranean here--but to many outsiders Uganda's claim to fame is still little more than Idi Amin, the jovial but brutal dictator whose 'reign of terror' in this former British colony lasted from 1971 to 1979.

But 27 years after Amin was overthrown, civil war continues to plague Uganda, and there are increasingly disturbing echoes of the tyrannical past in the regime of Yoweri ...

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