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The Battle of Entebbe was a battle of the Uganda–Tanzania War that took place on 7 April 1979 on the Entebbe peninsula in Uganda between Tanzanian units and Ugandan and Libyan units. The Tanzanians occupied the area, killed hundreds of Libyans, and ended the Libyan airlift in support of the Ugandan government.
Syrian Interim Government: Occupied by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power [s] Afrin District: 2018: Occupied by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power [40] [t] Tell Abyad and Ras al-Ayn Districts: 2019: Occupied by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power [u] Northern Cyprus [41] 1974 Cyprus ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Operation Thunderbolt Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Cold War Israeli commandos with a Mercedes-Benz 600 resembling the one owned by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, used by Sayeret Matkal to deceive Ugandan troops during the raid Date 3–4 July 1976 (1976-07-03 – 1976-07-04) Location ...
A prominent opposition figure in Uganda who is on trial in a military tribunal has begun a hunger strike, his wife said, two weeks after the country's top court banned courts-martial from trying ...
Uganda became an independent sovereign country in October 1962, at which time a British High Commission was established in Kampala. [citation needed] A 0.2-hectare (0.49-acre) site on which to build High Commission offices was leased for 99 years from 1963 at 10-12 Obote Avenue (sometimes called Parliament Avenue).
Uganda joined the first two international space law treaties, ratifying the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty on March 24, 1964, and acceding to the Outer Space Treaty on April 24, 1968. It was not, however, a party to the later Rescue Agreement of 1968, the Liability Convention of 1972, the Registration Convention of 1976 or the Moon Treaty of 1984.
Uganda became an independent sovereign state on 9 October 1962. As a Commonwealth realm , [ 1 ] the British monarch , Elizabeth II , remained head of state as Queen of Uganda until the link with the British monarchy was severed on 9 October 1963 and the Kabaka (King) of Buganda , Sir Edward Mutesa II , became the first President of Uganda .
Airbus has announced plans to cut 2,000 jobs in a sign that Europe is fast losing ground to the U.S. and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the new space race.