Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
He is the youngest son of the late Kabaka Muteesa II, the 35th Kabaka the Kingdom of Buganda, and Winifred Keihangwe, an Ankole princess. Accordingly, he is the youngest brother of Muwenda Mutebi II the current Kabaka of Buganda. He was still in the womb when Milton Obote’s soldiers raided the Mengo Palace in 1966.
Manuel Prado Ugarteche succeeded General Manuel A. Odría after coming first place in the 1956 elections, with the support of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), which gave in on several of its social demands after their failure, during the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, having generated an inflation of 30.8% in 1948 (causing Odría's coup d'état).
The Nnamulondo (Kabaka throne) is kept in Twekobe. [9] After the 1996 crisis in Buganda that led to the abolishment of Kingship in Uganda by Milton Obote, the Lubiri was returned to Buganda in 1997 by the central government of Uganda. [10] [11] [12] In 1999, the Lubiri was renovated to enable host the Kabaka's wedding. [10]
Kirya Balaki Kebba dedicated his life to the fight for freedom, a cause for which he was persecuted but he persevered Matia Kasaija, planning State Minister was with Kirya in exile in Nairobi in the Republic of Kenya. Kirya Balaki Kebba was an astute and courageous politician, who disagreed with the Milton Obote II Government to the extent that ...