Obote, (Apollo) Milton
Obote, (Apollo) Milton (1924– ) Ugandan statesman, Prime Minister (1962–66), President (1966–71 and 1980–85). After founding the Uganda People's Congress in 1960, he became the first Prime Minister of independent Uganda. Overthrown by Idi Amin in 1971, he returned from exile nine years later and was re-elected President. Obote established a multiparty democracy, but was removed in a second military coup in 1985.
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Uganda to hold state funeral for former president Obote next Friday
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/15/2005; 534 words
; ...state funeral for former president Obote next Friday KAMPALA, Oct. 15...for late former Ugandan president Apollo Milton Obote on Saturday announced that the...representatives of the family of late Obote led by Hajji Akbar Adoko Nekyon...
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Uganda's exiled ex-president Obote to retire from party's presidency
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 8/28/2005; 577 words
; ...Uganda's exiled ex-president Obote to retire from party's presidency...Xinhua) -- Exiled ex-president Apollo Milton Obote will not stand for the presidency...the party anymore." Wegulo said Obote had led the party by remote from...
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UGANDA: MUSEVENI SAID TO OPPOSE OBOTE RETURN
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 7/18/1997; ; 460 words
; ...his attempts to gain permission for former President Apollo Milton Obote to return to Uganda. "My contact with Museveni led me to speak to him about Milton (Obote). I told him it was important for him to forget the...
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Obote's body to be flown from S. Africa to Zambia
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/14/2005; 358 words
; Obote's body to be flown from S. Africa to...body of fallen former Ugandan president Apollo Milton Obote will be flown from South Africa to Zambia...Vision newspaper reported on Friday. Obote died of kidney failure at Morningside...
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Uganda decides to accord former president Obote state funeral
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/11/2005; 431 words
; ...decides to accord former president Obote state funeral KAMPALA, Oct. 11...state funeral to former president Apollo Milton Obote who died Monday in a South African...the late former president Dr. Milton Obote is viewed differently by various...
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State funeral for Uganda's Obote
Newspaper article from: New York Beacon, The; 10/19/2005; 398 words
; ...President Yoweri Museveni. Dr Obote, long considered a nemesis of...president to die in exile. Dr Obote took Uganda to independence from...funeral to the former President Dr Apollo Milton Obote," said a statement signed by...
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UGANDA: OBOTE WILL NEVER RETURN - MUSEVENI
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 7/21/1997; ; 445 words
; ...Museveni has said exiled former president Apollo Milton Obote will never return to Uganda. "Obote who has now grown hair like a bush, looking...saying what he would do the former president. Obote who is exiled in Zambia since ouster by the...
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Uganda's former president Obote dies in South Africa
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/11/2005; 436 words
; Uganda's former president Obote dies in South Africa KAMPALA...Ugandan former president Apollo Milton Obote died in a South African hospital...the South African government of Obote's death. Museveni said that...
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Uganda's ex-president Obote to back home from Zambia in May
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/30/2005; 372 words
; Uganda's ex-president Obote to back home from Zambia in May...for Uganda's former president Apollo Milton Obote to come back home on May 27, 2005...policy commission said the return of Obote, who is 81 years old, would speed...
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Uganda's Exile Former President Obote Can Return Home: Senior Official
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/29/2002; 348 words
; ...said that exiled former president Apollo Milton Obote can return to Uganda, the New...of exiled former leaders. "For Obote, we told him to come and then...fall of dictator Amin since 1986. Obote lives in Lusaka, Zambia where...
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Obote, Apollo Milton
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Obote, Apollo Milton 1925-2005 Apollo Milton Obote became the first prime minister of Uganda when the country gained independence in 1962. He later served as Uganda ’ s president from 1966 to 1971 and 1980 to 1985. Obote was born...
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Apollo Milton Obote
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Apollo Milton Obote , 1924-2005, president of Uganda (1966-71, 1980-85). Obote, a member of the legislative council...1966. Overthrown by Idi Amin in 1971, Obote fled to Tanzania. He returned with the...
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Obote, (Apollo) Milton
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Obote, (Apollo) Milton (1924– ) Ugandan...Uganda (1962–66). In 1966, Obote drove out the king of the old kingdom...his army chief, Idi Amin , in 1971, Obote returned to power after Amin was overthrown...
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