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Uganda

Posted Mon, 16/03/2009 - 05:58 by webmaster

Map of Uganda

  • Located in Eastern Africa, west of Kenya
  • Covers an area of 235,880 km
  • Population in 2003 was an estimated 25.6 million
  • Official languages Swahili and English
  • Natural Resources include fertile soils, regular rainfall and sizeable mineral deposits of copper and cobalt
  • Agriculture is the main industry, employing more than 80% of workforce
  • Main export - coffee
  • 62% of population are Christian
  • 51% of population under 18
  • Around 20% of Uganda's population believed to be carrying HIV
  • Estimated 10,000 street children in Uganda
  • 4,000 street children in capital Kampala
  • Uganda has around 1 million orphans as a result of AIDS - the highest in the world
  • 1 out of every 4 families caring for a child orphaned by AIDS

Rwanda

Posted Mon, 16/03/2009 - 06:15 by webmaster

Map of Rwanda

  • Located in Central Africa, east of Democratic Republic of the Congo and to the South-west of Uganda
  • Population in July 2004 was an estimated 7.95 million
  • Languages: Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centres
  • Agriculture is the main industry, employing more than 90% of workforce
  • Main export - tea and coffee
  • Religion: Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Muslim 4.6%, indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none 1.7% (2001)
  • Age Structure: 0-14 years: 42.3% (male 1,690,122; female 1,674,147) 15-64 years: 55% (male 2,178,956; female 2,194,526) 65 years and over: 2.7% (male 85,472; female 130,790) (2004 est.)
  • In 2003, 250,000 people carrying HIV
  • Rwanda has one the highest percentages of orphans in the world, the 1994 genocide resulted in mass killings of more than a million people