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Uganda–Tanzania War

Index Uganda–Tanzania War

The Uganda–Tanzania war (commonly known in Uganda as the Liberation War) was fought between Uganda and Tanzania in 1978–1979, and led to the overthrow of Idi Amin's regime. [1]

69 relations: Akena p'Ojok, Annexation, Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Battle of Lukaya, BM-21 Grad, Bob Astles, BTR (vehicle), Campaign medal, Dar es Salaam, David Oyite-Ojok, Derg, Electoral fraud, Entebbe International Airport, Fall of Kampala, France-Albert René, Front for National Salvation, Godfrey Binaisa, History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi, Idi Amin, Islamic Legion, Jinja, Uganda, Julius Nyerere, Kagera Region, Kampala, Katyusha rocket launcher, Kenya, Kikosi Maalum, Library of Congress, Libya, Libyan Army (1951–2011), List of wars involving Tanzania, Lukaya, Uganda, Masaka, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, Militia, Milton Obote, Moshi, Tanzania, Muammar Gaddafi, Mustafa Adrisi, National service, Obverse and reverse, Orders, decorations, and medals of Tanzania, Organisation of African Unity, Palestine Liberation Organization, Paulo Muwanga, People's Republic of Mozambique, Police, Presidential Commission of Uganda, Prison, Rise and Fall of Idi Amin, ..., Samora Machel, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, T-54/T-55, Tanzania, Tanzania People's Defence Force, Time (magazine), Tito Okello, Tupolev Tu-22, Uganda, Uganda National Liberation Front, Uganda Patriotic Movement, Uganda People's Congress, Uganda People's Defence Force, Ugandan Bush War, Yasser Arafat, Yoweri Museveni, Yusuf Lule, 1971 Ugandan coup d'état. Expand index (19 more) »

Akena p'Ojok

Akena p'Ojok is a former influential Ugandan politician who held various government positions in the 1980s, including Minister of Power, Posts and Telecommunications.

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Annexation

Annexation (Latin ad, to, and nexus, joining) is the administrative action and concept in international law relating to the forcible transition of one state's territory by another state.

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Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

The Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya consisted of the Libyan Army, Libyan Air Force and the Libyan Navy and other services including the People's Militia.

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Battle of Lukaya

The Battle of Lukaya was a battle in the Uganda-Tanzania War.

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BM-21 Grad

The BM-21 "Grad" (БМ-21 "Град"), is a Soviet truck-mounted 122 mm multiple rocket launcher.

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Bob Astles

Robert Astles (born Robert Asketill, 23 March 1924 – 29 December 2012) was a British soldier and colonial officer who lived in Uganda and became an associate of presidents Milton Obote and Idi Amin.

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BTR (vehicle)

BTR (БТР), from Bronetransportyor/Bronetransporter (бронетранспортёр/бронетранспортер; literally "armoured transporter"), is any of a series of Soviet or post-Soviet military armoured personnel carriers.

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Campaign medal

A campaign medal is a military decoration which is awarded to a member of the military who serves in a designated military operation or performs duty in a geographical theater.

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Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam (Dar) (from دار السلام, "the house of peace"; formerly Mzizima) is the former capital as well as the most populous city in Tanzania and a regionally important economic centre.

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David Oyite-Ojok

David Oyite Ojok (15 April 1940 – 2 December 1983) was a Ugandan military commander who held one of the leadership positions in the coalition between Uganda National Liberation Army and Tanzania People's Defence Force which removed strongman Idi Amin in 1979 and, until his death in a helicopter crash, served as the national army chief of staff with the rank of major general.

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Derg

The Derg, Common Derg or Dergue (Ge'ez: ደርግ, meaning "committee" or "council") is the short name of the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and Territorial Army that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987.

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Electoral fraud

Electoral fraud, election manipulation, or vote rigging is illegal interference with the process of an election, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both.

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Entebbe International Airport

Entebbe International Airport is the principal international airport of Uganda.

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Fall of Kampala

The Fall of Kampala, also known as the Liberation of Kampala, was a battle during the Uganda-Tanzania War, in which the combined forces of the Tanzanian Army and the Uganda National Liberation Army (composed of Ugandan exiles) attacked and captured the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

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France-Albert René

France-Albert René (born 16 November 1934) was the President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004.

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Front for National Salvation

The Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) was a Ugandan rebel group formed by Yoweri Museveni in 1972.

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Godfrey Binaisa

Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa QC (30 May 1920 – 5 August 2010) was a Ugandan lawyer who was Attorney General of Uganda from 1962 to 1968 and later served as President of Uganda from June 1979 to May 1980.

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History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi became the de facto leader of Libya on 1 September 1969 after leading a group of young Libyan military officers against King Idris I in a bloodless coup d'état.

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Idi Amin

Idi Amin Dada (2816 August 2003) was a Ugandan politician and military officer.

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Islamic Legion

The Islamic Legion (Arabic: الفيلق الإسلامي al-Faylaq ul-'IslāmiyyuG. Prunier, Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, p. 45) (Islamic Pan-African Legion) was a Libyan-sponsored pan-Arabist paramilitary force, created in 1972.

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Jinja, Uganda

Jinja is a town in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community.

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Julius Nyerere

Julius Kambarage Nyerere (13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist.

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Kagera Region

Kagera Region is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Kampala

Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda.

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Katyusha rocket launcher

The Katyusha multiple rocket launcher (a) is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kikosi Maalum

Kikosi Maalum (meaning "Special Force" in Swahili) was a militia of Ugandan exiles formed in Tanzania to fight against the regime of Idi Amin.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Libya

Libya (ليبيا), officially the State of Libya (دولة ليبيا), is a sovereign state in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.

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Libyan Army (1951–2011)

The Libyan Army was the branch of the Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Libyan Arab Republic and the Libyan Kingdom responsible for ground warfare.

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List of wars involving Tanzania

The following is a list of wars involving Tanzania since its formation in 1964.

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Lukaya, Uganda

Lukaya is a municipality in the Kalungu District of the Central Region of Uganda.

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Masaka

Masaka is a large town in the Central Region of Uganda, west of Lake Victoria.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel, or historically, members of a warrior nobility class (e.g., knights or samurai).

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Milton Obote

Apollo Milton Obote (28 December 1925 – 10 October 2005) was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence in 1962 from British colonial administration.

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Moshi, Tanzania

Moshi is a Tanzanian municipality with a postcode number 251 with and a population of 184,292 according to the 2012 census.

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi (20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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Mustafa Adrisi

General Mustafa Adrisi (– 28 July 2013) was Vice President of Uganda from 1977 to 1978 and one of President Idi Amin's closest associates.

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National service

National service is a system of either compulsory or voluntary government service, usually military service.

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Obverse and reverse

Obverse and its opposite, reverse, refer to the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags, seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics.

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Orders, decorations, and medals of Tanzania

The Tanzanian Honours System consists of orders and medals awarded for exemplary service to the nation.

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Organisation of African Unity

The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; Organisation de l'unité africaine (OUA)) was established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with 32 signatory governments.

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Palestine Liberation Organization

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية) is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle, with much of its violence aimed at Israeli civilians.

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Paulo Muwanga

Paulo Muwanga (or 1925 – 1 April 1991) was a Ugandan politician who served briefly as de facto president, and later as prime minister, of Uganda.

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People's Republic of Mozambique

The People's Republic of Mozambique (Portuguese: República Popular de Moçambique) was a self-declared communist state that lasted from 25 June 1975 to 1 December 1990, when the country became the present-day Republic of Mozambique.

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Police

A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, to protect people and property, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.

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Presidential Commission of Uganda

The Presidential Commission of Uganda held the office of President of Uganda between 22 May and 15 December 1980.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin, also known as Amin: The Rise and Fall, is a 1981 biographical film directed by Sharad Patel and starring Joseph Olita as Idi Amin.

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Samora Machel

Samora Moisés Machel (29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986) was a Mozambican military commander, politician and revolutionary.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Seychelles

Seychelles (French), officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles; Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an archipelago and sovereign state in the Indian Ocean.

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T-54/T-55

The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet main battle tanks introduced in the years following the Second World War.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Tanzania People's Defence Force

The Tanzania People’s Defence Force (TPDF) is the armed forces of Tanzania.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tito Okello

General Tito Lutwa Okello (1914–1996) was a Ugandan military officer and politician.

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Tupolev Tu-22

The Tupolev Tu-22 (NATO reporting name: Blinder) was the first supersonic bomber to enter production in the Soviet Union.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Uganda National Liberation Front

The Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) was a political group formed by exiled Ugandans opposed to the rule of Idi Amin with an accompanying military wing, the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA).

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Uganda Patriotic Movement

The Uganda Patriotic Movement is a defunct political party in Uganda.

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Uganda People's Congress

The Uganda People's Congress (UPC) is a political party in Uganda.

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Uganda People's Defence Force

The Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), previously known as the National Resistance Army, is the armed forces of Uganda.

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Ugandan Bush War

The Ugandan Bush War, also known as the Luwero War, the Ugandan civil war or the Resistance War, was a civil war fought in Uganda between the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) and the National Resistance Army (NRA) from 1981 to 1986.

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Yasser Arafat

Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa (محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات; 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat (ياسر عرفات) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (أبو عمار), was a Palestinian political leader.

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Yoweri Museveni

Yoweri Museveni (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician who has been the President of Uganda since 1986.

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Yusuf Lule

Yusuf Kironde Lule (10 April 1912"Lule, K. Yusufu", Africa Who's Who, London: Africa Journal for Africa Books Ltd, 1981, p. 636. – 21 January 1985) was provisional president of Uganda between 13 April and 20 June 1979.

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1971 Ugandan coup d'état

The 1971 Ugandan coup d'état was a military coup d'état executed by the Ugandan military, led by general Idi Amin, against the government of President Milton Obote on January 25, 1971.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda–Tanzania_War

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