Uganda - one of the poorest countries in the world - is showing signs of potential rapid economic growth, but despite being a resource-rich country, many are finding it hard to get by. We had intended to broadcast from one of Uganda's largest and oldest universities - Makerere - in the capital, Kampala. But when we opened our newspapers over breakfast that morning, we read that the students were on strike and the police were on campus. Roads were blocked, stones had been thrown and tear gas deployed. So we set up in central Kampala. We were there for a programme on finance in Uganda. Not government finance, not big business, but personal finance - the day-to-day worries of ordinary...
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