Ugandan President Idi Amin wrote to the governments of the British Commonwealth with a bold suggestion: Allow him to take ...

Idi Amin, who called himself "a pure son of Africa," but whose bizarre and murderous eight years as president of Uganda typified the continent's worst dictatorships, died Saturday. He was believed ...

Amin Aossey was born to Naomi Farris Aossey on May 25, 1976, in Cedar Rapids. Amin left behind his mother; father, Bill Aossey; brothers, Bill Yahya Jr. and Jalel; and five beautiful nephews and ...

Amin repeatedly sent his troops to invade neighbouring Tanzania, and in 1979, Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles counter-attacked, sending Amin into exile. Amin fled to Libya, then Iraq, before ...

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Amin also drove out of the country about 80,000 Ugandans of Asian origin, saying God had commanded him to do so in a dream. He distributed their vast businesses to his cronies, who mismanaged them ...

Amin's demonization unleashed an open season of violence on them. Museveni, like Amin, is using anti-gay hysteria to shore up his political fortunes. Museveni's rule, once promising, has gone on ...

Amin “was against our grandfathers and fathers because of the Jewish religion,” Samson Ben Sheva, 37, told JTA by phone from the city of Mbale. “He stopped the Jewish religion.

See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for eight years ...

Amin promptly expelled all Israelis from the country, installed the Palestine Liberation Organization in the former Israeli Embassy, and commenced construction of a giant mosque in downtown Kampala.

Amin, believed to be 80, was on a respirator. He was admitted to the hospital Friday suffering from high blood pressure, medical staff said. Amin has been in a coma since his admission.