Uganda A landlocked country in East Africa, bounded by Sudan on the north, Kenya on the east, Tanzania and Rwanda on the south, and the Democratic Republic of Congo on the west. The savannah country in the north supports cotton and grain. Economy Despite falling world prices for coffee, which accounts for about 95 per cent of the country's exports, Uganda has experienced a considerable degree of economic recovery in the last ten years. Other cash crops are cotton, tea, and maize, and there are livestock-raising, fishing, and subsistence crops of cassava, cereals, plantains, and yams. Mineral resources include copper, mining of which has ceased, apatite, tin, tungsten, and unexploited iron-ore reserves.
Industry concentrates on agricultural processing.
Mutesa I. He welcomed the explorers Speke and Stanley , hoping for protection against Arab slave and ivory traders. Following Mutesa's death tensions developed between Christians and Muslims, and also between British and German interests. In 1890 there was an Anglo-German agreement that the area be administered by the British, and the newly formed British East Africa Company placed Buganda and the western states Ankole and Toro under its protection. In 1896 the British government took over the protectorate. After World War II nationalist agitation for independence developed, with Mutesa II being deported.