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 ...

Renowned scholar Prof Mahmood Mamdani has said President Yoweri Museveni and the often-vilified Idi Amin almost share a similar political legacy, which started and moved in different directions over ...

If Forest Whitaker fails to win an Oscar on Sunday for his portrayal of Idi Amin, it would be only slightly less shocking than if the late dictator was seen walking the streets here again. But for the ...

(RNS) On Monday (Feb. 16), Uganda celebrated the life and ministry of Archbishop Janani Luwum, who was murdered on the orders of Idi Amin. (RNS) Armed with a Bible and a cross, a Ugandan Anglican ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — 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, who took ...

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 ...

Even as he neared death, Idi Amin sprang back to life in the headlines. At midweek he was reported to be in a coma in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, where the former Ugandan dictator, now believed to be ...

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, ...

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 ...

I‘ve never stuffed a note in a bottle, and tossed it into the ocean. But I seem to have done the bibliographical equivalent, and the evidence has washed up on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.