Idi Amin Dada was born in Uganda's west Nile province of Koboko. His father, a Muslim, was a member of the Kakwa tribe. His mother was a member of the Lugbara tribe. Mr. Amin spoke Kiswahili ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia --A former heavyweight boxer who had been a British colonial army sergeant, Idi ... Amin the nickname "Butcher of Uganda." The 250-pound dictator preferred to call himself ...

On this day in 1971, General Idi Amin Dada named himself the third president of Uganda, a week after leading the military coup that toppled the country’s second post-colonial leader, Milton Obote.

Idi Amin, who called himself "a pure son of Africa," but whose bizarre and murderous eight years as president of Uganda typified the continent's worst dictatorships, died Saturday. He was believed ...

(Soundbite of movie "General Idi Amin Dada") President IDI AMIN (Uganda): Fire. (Soundbite of gunshots) President AMIN: Excellent. All in the heart. TURNER: This isn't Forest Whitaker's version of ...

Former Ugandan President Idi Amin, exiled in Saudi ... when Obote was attending an African summit. Amin was hailed a hero and the 250-pound leader was nicknamed Dada, or "Big Daddy." ...

As portrayed by Forest Whitaker, Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan Kingpin, is a fiercely intelligent, manically paranoid, highly charismatic self-described man of the people. Though enormously ...

Kampala — Former president Mr Idi Ami Dada is dead. Amin, 78, passed away at exactly 7 a.m. Ugandan time on Saturday. Sources said that Amin's latest wife, whom he married a few months ago ...

General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait,'' of which Mr. Macdonald has obviously made a close and fruitful study. Kevin Macdonald's queasily enjoyable fiction film creates a portrait of the Ugandan ...