Uganda: Country Information
Uganda is well known for the terrible rule of Idi Amin who had many people killed, and destroyed the infrastructure of the country in the seventies. Since 1986 Yoweri Museveni has been in power. His administration has overseen growing stability and comparative prosperity. But life is a daily struggle, with corruption everywhere, and food and goods so expensive for the average Ugandan. The AIDS epidemic has brought death to many with hardly a person unaffected by the death of friends or close relatives. Many attribute the disease with widespread homelessness of orphaned children. But despite their hardships the local people make us so welcome and as your life touch theirs, a small piece of this world will be forever changed.