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The Buganda Crisis, also called the 1966 Mengo Crisis, the Kabaka Crisis, or the 1966 Crisis, domestically, was a period of political turmoil that occurred in Buganda.It was driven by conflict between Prime Minister Milton Obote and the Kabaka of Buganda, Mutesa II, culminating in a military assault upon the latter's residence that drove him into exile.
Colombia has a long history of political violence. Land, power, and wealth are unevenly distributed, and many rural citizens are used to having to fend for themselves. [ 75 ] There is no consensus about the date on which the conflict began, with some saying 1958 (with the start of the Frente Nacional (National Front)) [ 76 ] and others 1964 ...
In 1966, Mutesa's estrangement from Obote merged with another crisis. Obote faced a possible removal from office by factional infighting within his own party. He had the other four leading members of his party arrested and detained, and then suspended the federal constitution and declared himself President of Uganda in February 1966, deposing ...
Crisis in Buganda, 1953–55: The Story of the Exile and Return of the Kabaka, Mutesa II. London: Collings. ISBN 978-0860360988. OCLC 7556427. "Kabaka Mutesa II to Sir Andrew Cohen, 6 August 1953" in Donald Anthony Low (1971). The Mind of Buganda: Documents of the Modern History of an African Kingdom. University of California Press. pp. 163– 166.
The attack on Muteesa's palace refers to a significant event that occurred during Milton Obote's first reign of presidency in Uganda commonly known as the Mengo Crisis. On 24 May 1966, Obote ordered an assault on the (Lubiri) palace located at Mengo in Kampala, the residence of King (Kabaka) Edward Muteesa II of Buganda. The attack aimed to ...
In 1967, the prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote changed the 1966 constitution and turned the state into a republic. [11] On 24 May 1966 the federal Ugandan army attacked the royal compound or Lubiri in Mmengo. [12] At the time, Uganda’s first president and king of Buganda Kabaka Muteesa II fled his palace at Mengo amid a downpour.
The railway line of Colombia's largest coal mine, Cerrejón, was attacked with explosives that caused the suspension of trains without affecting production or exports. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] 13 February – A dead policeman, identified as mayor Jorge Sáenz Animero, and three civilians injured, is the result of an attack perpetrated by armed men in the ...
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