As with so much Ugandan history these days, this book is revisionist. It does not stand up as orthodox history. Rather, it is ...

After more than two decades in power and countless lives lost, Bashar al-Assad has fled to Moscow with his family. But when ...

Uganda’s Idi Amin shocked the world with atrocities, then fled with his wives to a quiet middle-class life. The Philippines’ ...

The archbishop stood up to Amin’s dictatorial regime and paid with his life, his bravery is immortalised in a film.

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 ...

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 ...

Such retaliatory looting is as old as tumbling tyrants and was deemed justified and even honorable through much of history.

Siaya, Kenya: The man who acted as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada in the popular film Rise and Fall of Idi Amin has died at the age of 70. Joseph Olita died suddenly at his rural home in ...

Matt Bish’s new film Janani: The Last Stand, takes us back to the 1970s timeline. In this particular timeline, SRB was active ...

Joe Birrell, who has died aged 94, was one of the last surviving British athletes to have taken part in the 1948 Olympic ...

History tells us that where a fragmented coalition of armed groups finds itself in a political vacuum, more violence is ...

he later had the dubious honour of coaching Idi Amin at basketball. A few months before the London Olympics, the 6ft 4in 18-year-old Barrow schoolboy had dramatically beaten a strong field to ...