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November 4th 2007
CHOGM is coming When we arrived in Uganda everything smelled of paint and the international airport at Entebbe was being completely rebuilt. Wow! we thought this place must really be on the up. It didn't take us long to realise that in fact the whole of Uganda and more specifically Entebbe and the capital Kampala are in overdrive trying to get ready for the Heads of Commonwealth m ... read more

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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