Africa - Week 2 241106C

Africa - Week 2

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November 27th 2006
Tuesday morning was completely wasted in Jinja trying to change money. I didn't want to change US dollars because I'm getting really low, but the ATM we were first sent to didn't accept visa & the next two wouldn't give me any cash, so I was forced to change Kenyan Shillings back at the Forex. To make the walk around town more annoying, I’d neglected to put a t-shirt on under my jumper & started ... 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