In the 1970s, Amin enlisted Black Ugandans to battle against racial minorities who were said to dominate the economy and public life. Today an ascendant right wing encourages aggrieved white Americans ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amin, who had been put in charge of Uganda’s military during the 1960s, seized power in a 1971 coup, overthrowing President Milton Obote.

There was also extensive cooperation in military areas. Hundreds of Ugandan students studied in Israel. The situation changed abruptly in March 1972 when President Idi Amin expelled all Israelis from ...

I was just seven years old when Idi Amin's soldiers arrested my father. He was a pastor in a small village in Luweero, Central Uganda and during that time, Christians were seen as a threat to Amin's ...

Gen David Musuguri, who commanded the Tanzanian forces during the war against Idi Amin’s Uganda died Tuesday at his home in Mwanza town. He was aged 104. Nicknamed “General Mutukula” for his execution ...