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 ...

Many films have been made on the infamous Ugandan military dictator, General Idi Amin Dada; both fiction and non-fiction, including the Oscar-winning The Last King of Scotland. But the most intriguing ...

In the new film The Last King of Scotland, Forrest Whitaker plays Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as a force of nature who sees his power with good intentions. (Soundbite of movie "The Last King of Scotland ...

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 ...

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 ...

This must be the longest deathbed in history. For more than 10 days now, over-excited journalists have hovered, their obituaries waiting to be delivered, as the devious Dr Idi Amin Dada, President for ...

KAMPALA -- Idi Amin, a onetime army boxing champion who became one of Africa's bloodiest despots, ruled Uganda for eight years with a whimsical savagery died on Saturday in a Saudi Arabia hospital ...

Series. Tomorrow marks exactly 40 years since a combined force of Tanzanian military and Ugandan exiles ousted President Idi Amin. He fled, first to Libya, and onward to Saudi Arabia where he died on ...

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 South ...