Uganda
Latest News:
- DRC: 'Pendulum displacement' in the Kivus
- Uganda/DR Congo: Stressed former child soldiers want revenge...
- IRC wraps up successful community program in Uganda
- Kenya: Mt. Elgon crisis affects 116,220 people
- Analysis - Fewer child soldiers, many still brutally vulnerable
- More internal refugees in war-ravaged northern Uganda return...
- Factbox - Hot spots of child soldier recruitment
- Kenya: Climate change and malaria in Nairobi
- UMCOR Hotline 24 Jul 2007: Afghanistan, OPT, Sudan
- Angolan, DR Congo leaders discuss border dispute
People
- Population: 20158176
- Population Growth: 2.24%
- Infant Mortality: 99.4 per 1000 live births (similar to Uganda)
Context
- Area: 236040 km2
- Government: republic
- Religions: Muslim (16%), Protestant (33%), Roman Catholic (33%)
- Ethnic Groups: Arab (1%), Bunyoro (3%), Batobo (3%), Lugbara (4%), Acholi (4%), Bagisu (5%), Langi (6%), Rwanda (6%), Basogo (8%), Iteso (8%), Karamojong (12%), Baganda (17%)
- Borders: Rwanda (169 km), Tanzania (396 km), Sudan (435 km), Zaire (765 km), Kenya (933 km)
Economy
- GDP per capita: 280$US (similar to North Korea, Uzbekistan, Solomon Islands, Iran)
- GDP from agriculture: 55%
- GDP from industry: 12%
- GDP from services: 33%
