Milton Obote, Uganda’s first prime minister and two-time president known for his brutal repression that led to the deaths of 500 000 people, died on Monday at a South African hospital, officials said.

Milton Obote, 80, Uganda's first prime minister and a two-time president, was remembered Tuesday as an outstanding leader by some Ugandans, but others blamed him for the deaths of as many as a ...

When the January 25, 1971 coup occurred, Uganda's president Milton Obote was in Singapore for the Commonwealth Heads of States and governments' summit. After the coup, soldiers made the former army ...

The body of former Ugandan president Milton Obote arrived home on Tuesday for a state funeral to tears and jeers over the late leader’s legacy, which left the nation deeply divided. Torn between ...

Milton Obote, Uganda’s first prime minister after independence, who led regimes known for corruption and brutality, died Monday in South Africa. He was 80. Obote, who was overthrown by the equally ...

Uganda will give a full state funeral to the country?s first prime minister and two-time President Milton Obote, despite charges he was responsible for the deaths of as many as 500,000 people. Uganda ...

Twenty three years ago on Tuesday, it emerged that the exiled former president, Apollo Milton Obote, had written to the prime minister of Britain, Tony Blair, calling on Britain and the Commonwealth ...

As a herdboy on his father’s tribal lands in northern Uganda, young Apollo Milton Obote often pondered how it would be to govern people rather than sheep or goats. Speaking to his charges as if they ...