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The Eye is a free bi-monthly magazine containing listings and directories, maps, reviews, tour and travel information plus articles of interest. It highlights everything to do with Uganda, from hospitals to hotels,shops to sporting events and from embassies to entertainment. It is distributed for readers and advertisers through national and regional airlines and tour operators, the airport information office, foreign diplomatic missions and NGOs, selected restaurants and bars, supermarkets and gift shops, all major hotels in Uganda, the Uganda Golf Club and government offices including the Uganda Wildlife Authority.

Articles in This Issue

Murchison International Game Fishing

	Early March 2007 saw 43 anglers of 17 different nationalities converge on Red Chilli Rest Camp, near to the Paraa river crossing in the magnificent Murchison Falls National Park to the north west of Uganda. To the strident blast of the Starters whistle at a barely-light 6-30am on the Friday morning, well armed with fishing rods.                                                                                                                                           More
The Neem Tree
	The Once Much Mightier Mvule - too popular for its own good?In The Eye’s last issue, Cathy Watson gave lots of sound advice about how to grow Mvule. But there’s a lot of (natural) history behind why we should be planting it, upon which more light deserves to be shed.                                                                                                                More
Restaurant Review: Crocodile Cafe and Bar
	The restaurant is behind the ballet school with well manicured gardens and open walls so one can enjoy the fresh air while listing to the piano in the background drifting across from the ballet school (We were there for lunch and there must have been dances classes taking place).  Unfortunately this was later drowned out by Celine Dion.                                                                                                                               More
Art / Cultural Review: Kampala Ballet School
	For every fisherman drowned in Uganda, there are on average 7 dependents left behind. The cycle of poverty is perpetuated when the main income earner is lost. Amelia lives on Lake Albert. She is mother of 16 month old twins. Her husband is a fisherman. She worries, “he will die and not return to support the family”.                                                                                                                                         More
Health Review : Malaria, Mozzies & a Mzungu Part 6
	And now some philosophy. If something works most of the time, but isn’t 100%, is it a good option? The Pakwatch school boy gets bitten every night by 3 or 4 infected mosquitoes, so he always has malaria. This makes him immune, so he may be a bit tired most of the time, and he gets a clinical attack of malaria every now and again when he gets a cold or bad diarrhoea due to lowering his immune threshold.     More
Charity: Lubugo, Bark Cloth
	Soft Power Education flies in the face of the traditional wielding of so called ‘hardpower’ promoting its assistance instead through collaboration, facilitation and cooperation – ‘soft power’. It was in this vein that the charity’s first project evolved; the donation of community land bringing about the building and running of a preschool.                                                                                                                                   More
Lodge Review : Rain Forest Lodge Mabira
	Imagine a tranquil island paradise in the middle of a river where you can relax and read a book or just simply watch the clouds go by.  You don’t need to imagine it, just visit The Hairy Lemon, situated about thirty kilometres downstream from Owen Falls Dam.  The drive to get there is relatively short, only an hour and a half from Kampala.                                                                                                                                     More
Eco - Toursim: Kalinzu Central Forest Reserve
	These forests, found in the legendary Ssesse Islands, are described as medium altitude moist forests. They form a belt along the lake and the lower ridges with a gentle slope from the lakeshore to the centre. However, the forest walks are not strenuous. There are 31 gazetted forest reserves in the Islands with a total of 7,324 hectares under the control of the National Forestry Authority.                                   More
Book Review: What is the What
	The Club was founded in 1991 on 60 acres of land off the Kampala-Entebbe Road, privately owned by Nari Patel. At the early stages, clay pigeon shooting took place using manual traps and standing on rocky outcrops!!! Early shooters at the club were just Kampala based friends who arrived on Sunday mornings armed with cooler boxes with cold drinks.                                                                                               More
Pub Review: Steak- Out
	I was told to visit Steak out on a Friday as it was meant to be particularly lively at the weekend, and this certainly boded true. As my group hurtled down Lumumba Avenue in another hair-raising Boda experience we could hear the music growing louder and louder as we neared. Having entered though tight security (strictly no cameras permitted) we were escorted to our table.                                                      More