Sipi Falls

Uganda

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October 21st 2009
My first stop in Uganda was a provincial capital, Mbale, overlooked by a mountainous ridge. The main street was lined with banks, none of whose ATMs would accept international cards. Then I discovered that none of them would give cash advances on credit cards or exchange travellers cheques. This included Barclays and Standard Chartered, big international banks who you would expect to have th ... 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