In Derek R. Peterson’s new book, “A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda,” he writes that Amin’s government made Uganda – a ...

Published: July 18, 2025 8:40am EDT Fifty years ago, Ugandan President Idi Amin with a bold suggestion: Allow him to take over as head of the organization, replacing Queen Elizabeth II.

Fifty years after Idi Amin expelled South Asians from Uganda, some of the 7,000 who settled in Canada reflect on that traumatic journey — and on where they are now in their lives. They also have ...

Idi Amin, the hulking self-declared Conqueror of the British Empire and one of modern history's bloodiest dictators, has died in Saudi Arabia, where he has lived in exile since fleeing Uganda in 1979.

As you would expect, he did a great deal of research. He read extensively about Amin, who is widely estimated to have had 300,000 Ugandans killed during his presidency from 1971 to 1979.

It’s 50 years since a tense international standoff that brought together a British lecturer, an infamous dictator, and a swimming pool in Cardiff. | ITV News Wales ...

A contest erupts in Uganda over the tainted legacy of late dictator Idi Amin By: Rodney Muhumuza, The Associated Press Posted: 12:20 AM CST Monday, Nov. 13, 2023 Last Modified: 1:27 AM CST Monday ...

It was Idi Amin who concluded the empire was getting a good deal from Jeremy Hespeler-Boultbee. Victoria’s Hespeler-Boultbee was a barely shaving officer in the King’s African Rifles.

Can Idi Amin possibly be rehabilitatedCan 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 ...