Mansa is the capital of Zambia´s northeastern Luapula province right at the border to the DR Congo. It has got a population of around 40.000 people, a Shoprite supermarket, a gas station, schools and the provincial government, but in the end Mansa feels just like a village, like a huge dispersed settlement. There is a […]
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Kilembe & Buwatha, Rwenzori mountains / Ruwenzori-Berge
Near Kasese along the main road to Fort Portal at the northern tip of the Rwenzori mountains, a road goes up to the mountains for about 8 km until it reaches Kilembe. The small settlement has been founded in 1950 as accommodation for the workers of the local copper mine. Most of Kilembe residents earned […]
Uganda Wildlife Education Centre, Entebbe
The Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) is the zoo of Entebbe, Uganda´s former capital about 40 kilometres from Kampala on a peninsula at Lake Victoria. Entebbe is the home of Uganda´s international airport, where Israeli military started “Operation Entebbe” in 1976 to end the hijacking of an Air France airplane by Palestinians and German RAF […]
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