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Idi Amin Dada (Idi Amin Dada Oumee)

Date of Birth: 1924 or 1925
Place of Birth: Koboko, northwestern Uganda
Died: 16 August 2003


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MPs expose airline fiasco

The airline founded by President Idi Amin in 1976 Uganda Airways was liquidated in 2001 in a wave of state privatisations...


Bobi Wine rights campaign sparks more protests

He compared the continuing absence since 5 November of 'my brother Jamshid Kavuma' to the murder by General Idi Amin's soldiers of Jolly Joe Kiwanuka and Ben Kiwanuka in 1972 and 1973...


Conakry gets its new class

Eyebrows may be raised over the choice of retired General Aboubacar Sidiki Camara (aka 'Idi Amin') as Minister of Defence...


Lungu returns the favours

That's when President Idi Amin Dada's soldiers arrested and later murdered the Ugandan Chief Justice Benedicto Kiwanuka as he sat in the High Court...


Richard Kershaw

There were military mutinies in British East Africa (defeated until Idi Amin tried again); in Ghana which succeeded in unseating Nkrumah...

The second piece was also notable for raising for the first time some of the background to Idi Amin's relations with Obote which would lead to the latter's eventual overthrow...

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A gamble on secession

Rashid says his family now based in Calgary are of Asian desecent and were expelled from Uganda under Idi Amin Dada's regime in the 1970s...


Soldiers out of their depth

In particular it includes Colonel Aboubacar Sidiki Camara (aka Idi Amin) seen until December's coup as the brains of the army...


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