Situated in east-central Africa, west of Kenya and east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, lies the tropical country of Uganda. The colonial boundaries created by Britain to delimit Uganda grouped together a wide range of ethnic groups with different political systems and cultures, complicating the establishment of a working political community after independence was achieved in 1962. Dictatorial regimes, guerrilla warfare and human rights abuses characterize much of Uganda’s recent history. The primarily agricultural region has one of the youngest and most rapidly growing populations in the world, and Uganda has been both a source of refugees and migrants as well as a host country for refugees.