Fifty years ago, Ugandan President Idi Amin wrote to the governments of the British Commonwealth with a bold suggestion: Allow him to take over as head of the organization, replacing Queen Elizabeth ...

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is considered one of the world's most brutal dictators. He killed thousands of people. There have ...

In 1966, the writer was in Uganda at a time of curfew and violence. It shaped his thinking about travel writing’s imperative to bear witness. By Paul Theroux Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ...

Thirteen years after his death, Uganda's most famous dictator Idi Amin could have a say in presidential elections taking place next Thursday in the East African country. Just a week ahead of the ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — For many Ugandans, the death of former dictator Idi Amin on Saturday severed the last link to an era best forgotten: eight years of brutal rule defined by the deaths of up to 500,000 ...

In the new film The Last King of Scotland, Forrest Whitaker plays Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as a force of nature who sees his power with good intentions. (Soundbite of movie "The Last King of Scotland ...

KAMPALA, UgandaKAMPALA, 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. Amin, ...

The son of former Ugandan leader Idi Amin has written to The Guardian listing what he says are inaccuracies in the British newspaper's 2003 obituary of the late dictator. Parts of the letter were ...

from the one and only General Idi Amin himself . . . . Why would Idi Amin present a UN report on his human rights violations to a friend? And with such a warm dedication to boot? Not to mention, how ...

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor-elect of New York City, was born in Uganda to parents of Indian origin, and his family emigrated when he was a child. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Musinguzi Blanshe In 1966, ...