Reaching Souls International Involvement:
Reaching Souls International saw 69,417 salvations in Uganda in 2003 and 92
new churches planted. We just completed a project
in Tororo in June 2004. Uganda is 33% Roman
Catholic and 16% Muslim.
Short Term Projects:
- Kampala, 1996
- Mbale, 1997
- Lira, 1998
- Masaka, 2000
- Tororo, 2004
National Missionaries
Alfred Obote
Barnabas Musoke
Eugene Olobo
George W. Engurat
Hallema Omwero Knony
Hameny I. Vianney
Isaac Okwang
John P. Wandera
Justus Muwanguzi
Michael Okwago
Nelson Ogwal
Okecho David Disi
Kampala, Uganda
Okumu W.D. Wanyama
Patrick Kunyu
Richard Okowi
Robert Adiba
Ronald Kibumba
Population:
26,404,543
Life Expectancy: 45
Years
HIV Deaths: 84,000
per year
The Republic
of Uganda is a country in east central Africa. It is
bordered in the east by Kenya, in the north by Sudan, by
the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, Rwanda in
the southwest and Tanzania in the south. The southern
part of the country includes a substantial portion of
Lake Victoria, within which it shares borders with Kenya
and Tanzania. It is named after the Buganda tribe.
Little is known about the
history of the region until the arrival of the first
non-Africans, although humans are known to have lived in
the area since at least the first millennium BC. When
Arabs and Europeans arrived in the 19th century, they
encountered a number of kingdoms in the area, supposedly
founded in the 16th century. The largest and most
important of these kingdoms was the still-existing
Buganda.
The area was placed under the charter of the British
East Africa Company in 1888, and became a protectorate
under the United Kingdom in 1894. Uganda was granted
independence in 1962.
A 1971 coup saw Idi Amin take power, ruling as a
dictator for the coming decade. His rule cost an
estimated 300,000 Ugandans' lives. His reign was ended
by a Tanzanian invasion in 1979. The situation improved
little with the coming of Milton Obote, who was deposed
in 1985, although rebels continued to fight long
afterwards. Current president Yoweri Museveni has been
in power since 1986.
