Idi Amin invades the Congo 1978

Instead of attacking and trying to annex part of Tanzania, Say Idi Amin invades and tries to annex part of the eastern Congo

How Would Ugandan-Zaire war go

Would Angola , Libya and Republic of the Congo get involved

Would Ugandan exiles try to invade
 
I thought he wanted to annex parts of Kenya. Wasn't Tanzania an attempt to get at the soldiers who fled there after trying to murder him? Ahhh wait, looks like the troops suspected Ida Min might have been trying to kill the Vice President. Anyways, just have them move into Congo instead. Though I imagine Uganda would simply do what Rwanda and Burundi did, which was to invave areas equal to their own size, slaughter refugees who fled form their governments, then strip the area of valuable minerals.
 
Would they be more effective then in the first Congo war
Possibly, Idi Amin probably won't have as much success rallying the people of Zaire against Mobutu, and his Shermans would be perfect targets for the J-21s ad Hinds of the White Legion.
 
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He probably would not be as effective considering that popular opinion would be behind the Congolese government. Plus mbotu was a key ally of the west so he would better armed than vs the invasion of the second Congo war.
 
He probably would not be as effective considering that popular opinion would be behind the Congolese government.
Local or international opinion? given Mobutu was governing the same way as he had in 1997 I doubt the local population is going to back him

so he would better armed than vs the invasion of the second Congo war.
Given Congolese army was very corrupt and incompetent, more arms isn't going to do much for local forces
 
I thought he wanted to annex parts of Kenya. Wasn't Tanzania an attempt to get at the soldiers who fled there after trying to murder him? Ahhh wait, looks like the troops suspected Ida Min might have been trying to kill the Vice President. Anyways, just have them move into Congo instead. Though I imagine Uganda would simply do what Rwanda and Burundi did, which was to invave areas equal to their own size, slaughter refugees who fled form their governments, then strip the area of valuable minerals.

Would the British not intervene in Kenya - there is still a British army training presence in country to this day?
 
Would the British not intervene in Kenya - there is still a British army training presence in country to this day?
They won't do anything beyond sending arms and maybe advisers unlike France Britain has never actively intervened in its former African colonies beyond peacekeeping so they won't bombing Ugandan forces or sending British troops in
 
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