It is roughly the same size as the United Kingdom, encompassing some , square kilometres 93, square miles of misty rainforests, great lakes and swamps, plateaus and snow-capped mountains -- a natural diversity that earned Uganda the colonial-era moniker the "Pearl of Africa". Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a tranche of ancient forest in the country's southwest, is home to half the world's mountain gorillas while Mount Stanley, on the border with DRC, is Africa's third-highest peak at 5, metres 16, feet.
Britain's protectorate in Uganda was forged in from a group of neighbouring and sometimes rival kingdoms, including the dominant Buganda kingdom in the south and Bunyoro in the northwest. Christian missionaries had arrived not long before, as did the first British explorers seeking the source of the Nile. Today, three-quarters of Uganda follows Christianity, and English and Swahili are the official languages though the country is multilingual. Uganda is one of the youngest countries in the world, with a median age of Nearly half its 45 million people are 14 or under, while just two percent are aged over It is also growing quickly.
The population has nearly doubled since the turn of the century and the fertility rate remains among the world's highest, with about five children born to every woman, according to the UN Population Fund. But the economy struggles to keep up. About , young people reach working age every year -- a figure set to rise to one million by -- but only 75, new jobs are created for them.
The World Bank says this disparity, if left unaddressed, will keep most young Ugandans locked in poor-quality jobs or unpaid work on the family farm, while dragging on growth and efforts to diversify the economy. Uganda is blessed with fertile soils and most of the country is engaged in agriculture, with coffee, vegetables, tea and fish among the top exports. Our emails are made to shine in your inbox, with something fresh every morning, afternoon, and weekend.
A matter of intense speculation has finally been decided. For years, landlocked Uganda has tried to decide who to partner with for getting oil from its the western Hoima disrict—home to some 1. According to a communique from African officials this weekend, the pipeline will run through Tanzania. Officials expect its completion by mid Tullow wanted the Kenyan route, which would have required building a 1,kilometer pipeline through northern Kenya.
Plus, Tanzania waived taxes and transit charges on the oil being transported. Kenya insists that it will continue with construction of its own pipeline linking million barrels of oil in the Lokichar basin in the northwestern Turkana County to the coastal city of Lamu, home to a future port.
The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region. Uganda also lies within the Nile basin and has a varied but generally a modified equatorial climate.
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