For now, Amin must be smiling in his grave. The child who called him short did not become very tall when he grew up ...

Athol Fugard, the renowned South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director, best known for his searing critiques of ...

Britain's Lord Owen, Foreign Secretary from 1976 to 1979, has revealed that he once raised the prospect of having Idi Amin assassinated. The then Labour government was trying to distance itself ...

The phrase ‘L’État, c’est moi’ (I am the State), famously attributed to King Louis XIV of France, encapsulates a political ...

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 ...

Berkshire women recount memories of fleeing Uganda in the 1970s, including baked beans, cold weather and racism.

The rescue operation by elite Israeli troops – dubbed Thunderbolt - resulted in a 35-minute battle, in which 20 Ugandan ...

Three Ugandan veteran cartoonists, John Jones Salongo Sserwanga, Willy Ochaya, and James Tumusiime were making cartoons in the 1970s during the reign of dictator Idi Amin. A new documentary ...

Idi Amin, whose eight years as president of Uganda were characterised by his bizarre and murderous behaviour, has died, a hospital official in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, said. Amin was 80, Ugandan ...