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Milton Obote, Uganda’s first prime minister after independence, who led regimes known for corruption and brutality, died Monday in South Africa. He was 80. Obote, who was overthrown by the ...
Milton Obote, 80, Uganda's first prime minister and a two-time president, was remembered Tuesday as an outstanding leader by some Ugandans, but others blamed him for the deaths of as many as a ...
BARELY a week after former South African President Nelson Mandela called on African leaders to emulate the founding fathers, the continent has gone into mourning again following the death of ...
Speaker Anita Among’s trinity remark echoes Uganda’s dark political past.
Kampala — In death, as in life, Apollo Milton Obote continues to ... parties and across the four decades of Uganda's post independence history. Obote introduced to Ugandan politics the element ...
The second-ranking official in the government of deposed President Milton Obote was sworn in Thursday as prime minister of Uganda`s new military government, and he immediately called for all armed ...
Milton Obote, the former President of Uganda who died on Monday aged 80, led his country to independence from Britain in 1962, then laid the foundations for what was to become, under Idi Amin ...
As a herdboy on his father’s tribal lands in northern Uganda, young Apollo Milton Obote often pondered how it would be to govern people rather than sheep or goats. Speaking to his charges as if ...
Milton Obote remains unfairly vilified as a fluker to the title “father of modern Uganda.” He was the first prime minister of independent Uganda, second president and only Ugandan to serve ...