More than three quarters of Ugandans are under 30: this huge youth population has the potential to lift the country out of poverty, but only if high levels of unemployment can be reduced. Here’s a piece for the BBC World Service edition of ‘From our own Correspondent’ on how some young people are getting help to build small businesses following years of conflict.

I spent time with the Ugandan Batwa pygmy forest-dwellers who are some of the most marginalised people in Africa, evicted from their ancestral land in 1991 when the forests became national parks for gorilla conservation. The Batwa are traditional hunter-gatherers finding their place in the modern world.