Former president Milton Obote. The peaceful UPC rally was brutally suppressed by armed police and a paramilitary force. The Uganda dictatorship is not with the coalition but with al-Qaeda.’’ ...

"49 At the time of independence in 1962, the Ugandan army was predominantly northern, and the rapid expansion of the army during the firstgovernment of Milton Obote (1962-1971) continued to rely ...

bringing to an end fifteen years of massive violations of human rights by the governments of Idi Amin and Milton Obote. The NRM government in 1998 governed through what it called the “movement ...

Col (Rtd) Tony Otoa, a former Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) officer who played a key role in supplying weapons to President Milton Obote’s forces during the fight against Yoweri ...

Dr Henry Opiote, who was the personal doctor of former Ugandan president Dr Apollo Milton Obote, has died. Family members confirmed that the elderly Opio-Ote had been unwell for a while.

Amin benefited from Uganda’s independence in 1962 as Prime Minister Milton Obote’s righthand man in uniform. In 1966, Obote used Amin to overthrow the Kabaka as Uganda president and assume the ...

Ugandan shilling and US dollars in the draw at a foreign exchange currency bureau in Kampala, Uganda, on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Uganda’s central bank said it stands ready to act if the World ...