Three Ugandan veteran cartoonists, John Jones Salongo Sserwanga, Willy Ochaya, and James Tumusiime were making cartoons in the 1970s during the reign of dictator Idi Amin. A new documentary, The ...

Now with this grotesque notion of self-pardon, one can only wonder, who does he think he is? Idi Amin? To that, the answer is probably, yes. Michele Margetts Salt Lake City ...

Fifty years ago, on Aug. 4, 1972, Ugandan President Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of the country’s entire Asian population, giving them just 90 days to leave. Amin accused Asians of refusing to ...

The boogeyman of the 1970s, Idi Amin Dada, arrives on screen, and in full bellow in "The Last King of Scotland." ...

One of the sons of Idi Amin has launched a campaign to improve the image of the late Ugandan dictator. Jaffar Amin, 40, said he was speaking out now because the film The Last King of Scotland ...

Idi Amin was a brutal and violent man who tortured and killed his opponents, surrounded himself with mediocre but equally violent kinsmen, brought the economy to its knees, decimated the middle ...

If Forest Whitaker fails to win an Oscar on Sunday for his portrayal of Idi Amin, it would be only slightly less shocking than if the late dictator was seen walking the streets here again. But for … ...

The man who acted as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in the popular film Rise and Fall of Idi Amin has died at the age of 70.

When U.S. actor Forest Whitaker played the role of Uganda's murderous 1970s dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 movie The Last King of Scotland, he traveled to Uganda to better understand the character ...

NO ONE cried when Idi Amin died, except in Uganda, the country he terrorised into penury in the 1970s. Amin, who passed peacefully away on August 17th, after 24 years of comfortable exile in Saudi ...