Word: ugandan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deposed after only ten weeks, the chubby lawyer barely survived a string of no-confidence motions brought against him in the country's parliament. The immediate cause of Binaisa's overthrow was his attempt to dismiss Brigadier David Oyite Ojok as army chief of staff, reportedly because Ugandan troops, ordered to conduct house-to-house searches for arms in Kampala, had looted many of the homes. Troops loyal to Ojok quickly seized the radio station in Kampala and began broadcasting anti-Binaisa messages. After two days, the takeover was announced...
...still President. In the midst of the rebellion, Binaisa dispatched plaintive letters to the leaders of three neighboring countries, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Kenya's Daniel arap Moi and Sudan's Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri. The letters to Arap Moi and Nimeiri were intercepted by the Ugandan military. "Dear Brother Gaafar," said the missive to Nimeiri, stamped TOP SECRET, "I am in the middle of a political crisis... I ask you to make available to me 1,000 riot police...
...army officer (Bruce Myers) to join her and Mère Ubu (Macbeth) in their conspiracy to kill the king. The most ambitious work in the cycle is the least affecting. The Ik is based on Colin Turnbull's 1973 book, The Mountain People, the story of a Ugandan tribe that lost its hunting grounds. Ravaged by starvation, they became beasts, losing all traces of human compassion...
...make ends meet, virtually every Ugandan has resorted to cheating. Cab drivers charge 1,000 shillings for the 21-mile drive from Kampala to Entebbe airport, ten times the fare a year ago. Clerks at government-controlled stores routinely consign salt, sugar and other commodities to the black market, where they sell for many times the official price. Coffee, Uganda's biggest cash crop, is smuggled into neighboring Burundi, which last year exported more than twice the quantity of coffee beans it harvested in its own fields. Says a Ugandan clergyman: "I don't know if our people...
...nothing to root out entrenched government corruption. Last month Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, whose troops did most of the fighting in the war against Amin, dispatched his Foreign Minister, Ben Mkapa, to Kampala with a harsh message: Tanzanians had not shed their blood and emptied their treasury so that Ugandan politicians could line their pockets and fight among themselves. By early March Nyerere had apparently become fed up with the continued political infighting. He was also annoyed that Binaisa's aides put all the blame on his troops for a series of violent clashes between the Tanzanians and Ugandan...