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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 Field Marshal Idi Amin Amin shortly before addressing the United Nations General Assembly in 1975 3rd President of Uganda In office 25 January 1971 – 11 April 1979 Vice President Mustafa Adrisi Preceded by Milton Obote Succeeded by Yusuf Lule ...
Numerous organizations, including the United Nations and the U.S. and UK governments, have called for an investigation of the exact circumstances of Gaddafi's death, [56] amid controversy that it was an extrajudicial killing and a war crime. [57] [58] The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, had said there should be a full ...
Conducător ("leader"), a title used by Ion Antonescu and Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania. El Caudillo de España ("the Chieftain of Spain") Generalísimo Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Jefe de Estado (Chief of State) and "Chief of Government" (Prime Minister). He adopted this title for himself and came to power after winning the Spanish Civil War ...
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) rejected this and called for a Libyan withdrawal, which came in November 1981. The civil war resumed, and Libya sent troops back in. [ 284 ] In 1982, the GUNT government was overthrown by Habré's forces and Oueddei fled to Libya, where Gaddafi provided him with arms to continue to guerrilla war against ...
By this time, many people inside and outside the CAE thought Bokassa was insane. The Western press, mostly in France, the UK and the US, considered him a laughingstock, and often compared his eccentric behavior and egotistical extravagance with that of another well-known eccentric African dictator, Idi Amin of Uganda.
During his presidency, his country was nicknamed the "Dachau of Africa", after the Nazi concentration camp, [6] with condemnations of his government issued by the International Commission of Jurists, [88] World Council of Churches, [89] the UN, [28] the Organisation of African Unity, [90] [91] Amnesty International, [92] [93] and the European ...
Hanged by French Army officers under Paul Aussaresses; his death was initially passed off as a suicide. March 23, 1957: Larbi Tbessi, nationalist and president of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema: Thrown from a building by French Army officers under Paul Aussaresses; at the time, his death was passed off as a suicide. June 21, 1957
After his father's death, Joseph Kabila succeeded his father at the young age of 29, making him the first head of state to be born in the 1970s. [8] Some individuals were accused of being involved in a plot to overthrow his regime as well. Even with the loss of power, the government had remained stable. [8]