At dawn

Marabou Storks taking over Ugandan towns & cities

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August 1st 2006
When you sit on the front patio area at Gately on the Nile - a comfortable guest house situated in a bird-watcher's paradise of a garden - you have a view of a narrow band of Lake Victoria in the middle distance - en route to what used to be the Owen Falls and generally acknowledged as the Source of the Nile. Between you and the lake view there is a gigantic tree - indigenous, and I don't know it ... read more

Africa » Uganda » Eastern Region » Jinja

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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