Idi Amin, the unquestionably evil and perversely fascinating dictator of the east central African nation of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, died Aug. 16 at a hospital in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, where he was ...

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.

Perhaps no African leader has generated as much intrigue as I di Amin Dada, the self-styled conqueror of the British Empire and Ugandan dictator. He was cruel, but not uniquely so. How did he earn ...

Idi Amin joined the King’s African Rifles (KAR) and it is where he trained as an army man. He rose through different military ranks up to a level of a self-styled field marshal. He assumed a position ...

The former Ugandan leader, Idi Amin Dada, has a well-deserved reputation as a ruthless dictator. But as he fights for his life in a Saudi Arabian hospital, the chance of him ever being brought to ...

To some extent, most documentaries rely upon the participation of their subjects. So how do you film a fairly negative documentary about a dangerous and powerful military dictator? Well, if you're ...

Idi Amin Dada, whose eight-year presidency of African nation Uganda is remembered by the torture and murder of more than 200 000 people, is in a coma in a Saudi hospital, medical staff at the hospital ...

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