The colonial ghosts of Uganda’s ‘Queen Elizabeth’ park

The colonial ghosts of Uganda’s ‘Queen Elizabeth’ park

This is the fourth story in the Mongabay Series – Protected Areas in East Africa. Read Part One, Two and Three In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a settlement on the shore of a sulfurous volcanic lake. The lake’s vast deposits of salt were famed across the region, drawing traders and making Katwe a desired prize. The Basangora, local pastoralists known for th…

Bobi Wine to run for president in Uganda’s 2026 election ‘if I am still alive and not in jail’

… leaders. In 2021, Africa Elections Watch observers said the election was conducted with … people are trained in America. “So we want America and other world … annual revenue to corruption – 10tn Ugandan shillings ($2.5bn) stolen every …