After a long period of civil war and chaos under the military dictatorship of Idi Amin in 1970s ... BBC Country Profile: Uganda The BBC provides a political and economic profile of Uganda, with ...

Idi Amin expelled up to 50,000 Asians ... lost everything when he was forced into exile by Amin in 1972 at the age of 42. He was born in Jinja, Uganda, in 1930 and in 1971 he took over the family ...