In a coup which UK agencies may have had a hand in, Idi Amin seized power in Uganda on 25th January 1971. Thus began a decline into economic trouble and genocide of probably the most prosperous of Britain's former possessions in East Africa.
A return to democracy in 1986 has since declined into an elective dictatorship. Yoweri Museveni has again been returned as president in an election which many outside observers have seen as flawed. It is a sign of this government's abandonment of international responsibility that the US has been more concerned about that.
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