Kampala - Idi Amin Dada, one of Africa's most notorious dictators, is in a coma in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The independent Sunday Monitor said the 80-year-old Amin, ...

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has died of multiple organ failure in hospital in Saudi Arabia. Amin, who was variously described as 78 or 80 years old, had been in a coma at King Faisal Specialist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For those that lived during Idi Amin's vicious reign in Uganda between ... One of the most barbaric military dictators in post-independence Africa, the death toll of his own citizens under his ...

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 ...

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 ...

See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for eight years ...