It’s 50 years since a tense international standoff that brought together a British lecturer, an infamous dictator, and a ...

Gen Moses Ali, Uganda's 86-year-old Second Deputy Prime Minister and MP for Adjumani West, is defying critics urging him to step down, with his camp insisting he is fit to seek re-election in the ...

A newly released report has sounded alarm over Uganda's increasingly militarized political landscape, warning that the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) is tightening its grip on power and ...

The symbolism was seismic: the Kingdom of Buganda, once Britain’s gateway into the region, was forcibly dismantled by a ...

No Amin Coup, Asians Stay Picture January 1971. Idi Amin’s tanks stay in the barracks, and Milton Obote’s government limps on ...

Zambia's former President Kenneth Kaunda has never forgiven himself for urging Milton Obote of Uganda to attend the 1971 ...

Tuesday, July 29, 2025, will be the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon GCFR. He was overthrown in a ...

The flight was diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, where dictator Idi Amin welcomed the terrorists. Once on the ground, the hijackers performed a chilling “selection”, separating the Jewish and ...

Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which is renewable without elections.

A military helicopter from the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia that crashed at the airport in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday belonged to Uganda's military, the military's ...

Ruto's Kenya is quite redolent of Idi Amin's Uganda (1971-1979) where one voiced dissent on the pain of death, scholars and thinkers were muzzled into silence and fled abroad, and foreign-owned ...