Dusk on the Nile

Murchison Falls National Park

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August 21st 2006
Murchison Falls 19-21 August 2006 After a week conducting fieldwork in the West Nile I took my first bus in Uganda and treated myself to a tourist weekend at Murchison Falls- home to countless giraffes, hippopotamuses, antelopes, warthogs, elephants and some lions and leopards, which are not easy to find. My bus departed Arua Town at 6:30am and it took about six hours to trav ... read more

Africa » Uganda

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Uganda achieved independence from the UK in 1962. The dictatorial regime of Idi AMIN (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton OBOTE (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,0... ... read more