This week in history: March 17-23 This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.

Late Ogola passed away on Friday 14, 2025, at Nakasero Hospital at the age of 85 years. Last week, President Yoweri Museveni granted the former IGP an official burial scheduled on Sunday in Tororo.

Following the ouster and subsequent flight into exile of Obote, Muwanga was named executive prime minister under Tito Okello, but was replaced late in August 1985 by the late Abraham Waligo.

Obote’s love for his tribe, the Langi, surpassed that of the state or so it seemed. During his first regime when Amin boasted that he feared nobody but God, Obote in response would say, “I am the only ...

Just one month following Kenya's official independence, Jomo Kenyatta invited British troops to put down a mutiny of soldiers who were conducting a sit-down protest against the continued presence of ...

Ms Miria Kalule Obote, had sued Mr Charles Akora, a close member of the Obote family, claiming that the contested land was part of the 700 acres belonging to her late husband.

July 27, 2013, marks 28 years since Uganda Peoples Congress second regime was toppled in a military coup. Henry Makmot, who was the junior Minister of Finance, deputising Milton Obote, also the ...

Mr Obote is the fourth Ugandan leader to die in exile. Some argue the reconciliation has come too late in a country that since its independence has never witnessed a peaceful transfer of power from ...

But a friend to the late Nyakairu said he joined the army in 1969 when Milton Obote was president. "He trained as a pilot in Russia, China and Belarus," a military colleague said. He said Nyakairu ...

African strongman Idi Amin, who died last week, was embraced and then reviled by Israel during his military career and his murderous eight-year reign at Uganda’s helm. Amin, the self-proclaimed ...

Obote was overthrown by the army again, this time by Acholi officers in the UNLA led by Tito Okello Lutwa and Basilio Okello. They took control of the government in July 1985.