The best general websites about Uganda are My Uganda and Enter Uganda. Another good site is Uganda Online. All of these sites have extensive listings about the culture, history and politics of the country, as well as listings for both businesses and tourists. For a more official view, see the websites of the Government of Uganda and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (links to more government departments can be found here). For more in-depth information, have a look at the US Library of Congress' Uganda Country Study. For additional links have a look at the Uganda Pages of Columbia University, here, and the University of Pennsylvania, here.

Current news about Uganda can be found at the websites of the country's leading national daily newspapers, The Monitor and The New Vision. In addition, the online service AllAfrica.com carries many of the top stories. A number of international broadcasters also carry regular pieces on Uganda. For example, see the Africa news section of BBC News and the websites of the BBC World Service's Network Africa and Focus on Africa. See also the Africa sections of Voice of America and Radio France Internationale.

For more information about education and development in Uganda, a number of sources are available online. For general development statistics on Uganda (from UNDP), click here. In 1996, the Ugandan government, with support from Britain's Department for International Development (DfID), introduced a system of Universal Free Primary Education (UPE) in the country. For a local perspective on the rationale and outcomes of UPE, read the comments of Alex Ndeezi, a Ugandan MP, here. For DfID's perspective, visit their website (follow the link 'search this site', and key in the searchword: 'Uganda'), here. Whilst UPE represents a great advance for educational provision in Uganda, many challenges remain. For a general overview of the ongoing issues, have a look at Simon Appleton's academic paper "Education, Incomes and Poverty in Uganda in the 1990s". The paper can be downloaded from the University of Nottingham's website, here. For an overview of the issues currently facing Uganda's tertiary education sector, see the relevant pages of The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, here.

Regarding education and development in Africa more generally, the trustees of Solomon's Children have been particularly inspired by the work of the Fiankoma Project in Ghana, the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) in Kenya, and Link Community Development, in Ghana, South Africa and Uganda. But see also the websites of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), DfID's IMFUNDO Project and UNESCO's Education for All. More links are available via the websites of two education research institutes, id21 and the University of Sussex's Centre for International Education.

One of the biggest challenges facing education and development in Africa today is, of course, the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The African pandemic began in South-western Uganda, and today, there are more AIDS orphans in Uganda than in any other country on the continent. For a comprehensive discussion of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and education in Uganda, see Hyde et. al.'s academic paper "HIV/AIDS and Education in Uganda: Window of Opportunity", which can be downloaded here. The tragedy of AIDS in Africa is captured in Time magazine's feature Death Stalks a Continent, and in Mark Schoofs award-winning series of articles, The Agony of Africa. For more news, articles and photographs, see the website of AIDS and Africa. See also the comprehensive information websites of the Stop AIDS Campaign (an umbrella organization of HIV/AIDS charities) and UNAIDS. See also the HIV/AIDS websites of the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC), the World Bank, and UNICEF.

A further set of challenges are posed by the ongoing civil war in the North of Uganda. Under the leadership of the self-styled 'prophet' Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has been waging a small, yet bloody insurgency against the current Government of Uganda for more than a decade. In recent years the LRA have taken to attacking secondary schools as a means of abducting young people. The young men taken in this way are often forced to become fighters in the LRA, whilst the young women may be retained as their 'camp followers'. For more on the history of the LRA conflict, and for the latest information on the North of Uganda, see the Uganda Country Pages of the International Crisis Group, of Human Rights Watch, and the library section of Amnesty International. Finally, for a project which is trying to end the war by non-lethal means, see the website of the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative.