The park contains two rivers – Kidepo and Narus – which disappear in the dry season, leaving just pools for the wildlife.
The local communities around the park include pastoral Karamojong people, similar…
The park was gazetted in 1991 and was recognized as a World Heritage site in 1994 and a Ramsar site in 2008.
Highest point: 5,109m above sea level on Mt Stanley’s Margherita Peak.…
The park takes its name from “Gahinga” – the local word for the piles of volcanic stones cleared from farmland at the foot of the volcanoes.
The British administration declared the area a game sanctuary…
Murchison Falls became one of Uganda’s first national parks in 1952
At Murchison Falls, the Nile squeezes through an 8m wide gorge and plunges with a thunderous roar into the “Devil’s Cauldron”, creating a trademark rainbow
The…
The Nilo-Hamites are a linguistic and cultural group that lives in several parts of East Africa, including Uganda. They are thought to be descendants of the ancient Hamitic people who moved south from…
Nilotic-language speakers entered the area from the north probably beginning about A.D. 100. They were the first cattle-herding people in the area, but they relied on crop cultivation to supplement livestock herding for…
Bantu-speakers entered southern Uganda probably by the end of the first millennium A.D. and developed centralized kingdoms by the fifteenth or the sixteenth century. At independence, Bantu-language speakers made up approximately two thirds…
Ugandans can be classified into several broad linguistic groups: the Bantu-speaking majority, who live in the central, southern and western parts of the country; and non-Bantu speakers who occupy the eastern, northern and…
On September 3rd at the Embassy of Japan, Mr. Tatsumasa OKU, Managing Director of Smiley Earth, an Osaka-based company specializing on towels made of Ugandan organic cotton, was awarded Ambassador's commendation for his remarkable…
On 29th March 2023, the Embassy of the Republic of Uganda in Japan through the Ambassador- H.E. Kaahwa Tophace and Earth Infinity Co. Ltd., through the Representative Director- Mr. Koichi Hamada, signed a…