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 equally ...

Thirty-one years ago, this week there were big celebrations in Buganda. It is when Ronald Mutebi was crowned 39th Kabaka on July 31, 1993 and his kingdom was reborn. Also, this week, it was 39 years ...

What you need to know: Bugisu gave the country respected national figures such as the late Prof Dani Wadada Nabudere and the late James Wapakhabulo Wambogo. Once a formidable political force, Bugisu ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

MILTON OBOTE, the former president of Uganda who died last Monday aged 80, led his country to independence from Britain in 1962, then laid the foundations for what was to become, under Idi Amin, one ...

I was recently involved in a debate about The Common Man’s Charter on the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party forum “UPC Since 1960 Official” run by an official of the party called Andrew Omara. The ...

The paper which was prepared by the agency’s Office of African and Latin American Analysis concluded that the Obote II regime was very heavily challenged, and the army was out of control. Thirty-nine ...

Some say he used his tongue to get to power; perhaps the reason Milton Obote was one of the civilians to take power in a coup in Africa. While writing his obituary, the Guardian described Obote as one ...

AFTER living for about 18 years in self-imposed exile in near-by Zambia, twice ousted former president of Uganda, Dr Apolo Milton Obote, has suddenly ignited the overtly bankrupt theory that there is ...