Idi Amin presided over a reign of terror in Uganda, during which an estimated 300,000 people died. He seized power in 1971 and condemned his country to a decade of ...

They were the sporting heroes of a nation, the no-hopers that showed up Africa’s footballing establishment and whose success saw them showered with gifts by the notorious dictator Idi Amin.

The radio said there were reports Uganda's President Milton Obote had been overthrown in a military coup by his army commander, General Idi Amin ... frenzy about Amin. Amin was Africa's original ...

Books continue to be written about him. In 2021, Mark Leopold, British social anthropologist published Idi Amin: The Story of Africa’s Icon of Evil. Last year, Ugandan historian Samwiri Lwanga ...

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 ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Can Idi Amin be rehabilitated? The question is animating some in this East African country two decades after the death of one of Africa’s most infamous leaders with a ...

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world. Amin is also known for allegedly sending the then US President, Richard Nixon, a "get well soon" card just after the Watergate scandal, ...

In early August 1972, Uganda’s brutal military dictator Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of ... India (a country under British rule) to East Africa to build hundreds of miles of railway from ...

In 1970s East Africa, “Asians” referred to a broad ... as The Washington Post obituary described Idi Amin? Far from it. Authoritarian and democratic regimes alike have adopted mass expulsion ...