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

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

President Museveni has called for a return to principled diplomacy in the Middle East, appealing to both Iran and Israel to end their mutual hostilities and embrace a two-state solution to the ...

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

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 ...

In 1947, as a Sergeant and military instructor based in Kenya, Musuguri had, among his students, a young Idi Amin Dada. He would later in life quip that Amin made a mistake in attacking his instructor ...

The lavish and absurdly lengthy titles of Idi Amin, the former President of Uganda, have long been the subject of both ridicule and analysis. Amin’s self-bestowed titles included “His E… ...