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Uganda

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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Museveni's backyard

In the remote north-west the West Nile Bank Front (WNBF) is led by Colonel Juma Oris once in the notorious President Idi Amin Dada's cabinet...

Idi Amin had pacified the WNBF by making Juma Oris Foreign Minister and when Amin fell Juma reverted to rebellion...


Naming names

An early and unlikely catalyst was Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada...


Tough Tinyefuza

In Uganda's semi-detached West Nile district in the far northwest the West Nile Bank Front remains in action despite divisions in its leadership between Idi Amin-veteran Juma Oris and former Constituent Assembly member Zubairi Atamvaku...


Border brothers

Juma Oris and consists of remnants of ex- President Idi Amin Dada's army...


Balance of terror

Tanzania has long-standing links with Burundi's Hutu: in 1979 some Hutu refugees were recruited into the force Nyerere sent into Uganda to overthrow President Idi Amin Dada...


Intervention on the agenda

People are buying weapons for protection from 'Tanzanian looters' and recall old stories about Tanzanian soldiers who went into Uganda in 1979 to overthrow President Idi Amin Dada...


Museveni's party

Outside the north-east Ssemogerere's Catholicism did not seem to sway many voters; Mayanja son of the energetically Muslim Abubakar Mayanja (a minister under Obote Idi Amin Dada and Museveni himself) insisted that he was the candidate of the young not of a faith...


War in the north

This is the homeland of ex-President Idi Amin and West Nilers were brutally treated after his overthrow in 1979...


Past and present

Museveni responded by saying that he could reconcile with his former political and military enemies: President Tito Okello Lutwa (whom he overthrew) and Idi Amin Dada's Vice- President General Mustapha Adrisi were appointed on 27 March as advisors to the President...


Museveni's party piece

Asians who have returned to Uganda have been given back the property taken by Idi Amin's regime after 1972...


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