uganda

On October 1978, Idi Amin made the foolish decision to invade Tanzania. Now, Amin had several reasons to launch this war. For one, his predecessor, Milton Obote, had been living in exile in Tanzania throughout the duration of Amin's regime, under the protection of fellow socialist Julius...

In 1974, Brigadier Charles Arube led an attempted military coup against the government of Idi Amin. The Arube uprising, as it was later known, was initially successful, capturing much of Kampala. However, Arube was shot dead by Amin shortly after entering Amin's headquarters, causing the...

Invisible Children, Inc. aimed to have Kony captured before 2012 would end. Obviously that failed. But what if that actually succeeded? What would happen next?

Preferably after 1962 but really with any 20th century pod, turn Uganda into a thriving democracy that avoids the military regimes and civil wars that plagued the country otl. An Autocracy would be acceptable if civil rights are protected and it avoids otl's corruption.

In October 1978, war broke out between Uganda and Tanzania. While the exact circumstances of what happened are still unclear, the outbreak of a shooting conflict wasn't exactly a surprise. Not only did Uganda have territorial claims to the Kagera Salient, which was under Tanzanian control, but...

Just before the 1980 Ugandan elections, a group of Idi Amin loyalists known as the Western Nile Front ambushed former and future Uganda president Milton Obote as he was touring the West Nile sub-region of Uganda. Obote was nearly killed, and so was Tito Okello, a high-ranking military commander...

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IOTL, Idi Amin's plan for a Ugandan space program was an absolute failure that consisted of only an attempt to train an astronaut on an obstacle course. How could a Ugandan government develop a functioning space program before 1990 with a POD after 1950? The minimum conditions for a space...

IOTL, the Juba Conference of 1947 was organized between British colonial officials and Sudanese separatist delegates for negotiating the future of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It was decided that the ethnically diverse region would break off from the empire as a single state. This situation might...

Author: Lavie Tidhar Title: "Unholy Land" Publication: November, 2018 Page Count: 290 POD(s): Multiple Main POD (mentioned in foreword, so not spoiling anything): 1904. Upon his return from the fact-finding expedition, Nahum Wilbusch recommends to the Zionist Congress the creation of a...

Okay friends, there is something that tickles my imagination. It's about the 1976 operation undertaken by Israeli commando forces. In a nutshell: After palestinian and German terrorists took control of an Air France plane on the 27th of June they were given entry to Uganda by its dictator, Idi...