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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Then-Army Chief Joseph Mobutu seized power in a military coup on 24 November 1965 ... Macías Nguema (Equatorial Guinea), Idi Amin (Uganda), Siad Barre (Somalia), and Hissène Habré (Chad).

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 ...

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 ...

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law a measure that will allow civilians to be tried in military courts. The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) Amendment Bill 2025 was ...

Uganda’s 80-year-old president announced that, after more than four decades in power, he will seek yet another term next year.