NYERERE & KAGERA WAR-4: Kagera War: Lessons and challenges

>Besides recapturing the Kagera Salient and driving Idi Amin out of Uganda, Tanzania’s second major success in the eight-month war lay in the organisation of its fighting force.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Apr

KAGERA WAR: Uganda’s secret on Hans Poppe’s body

>Hans Poppe was the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the present Kagera Region when Ugandan soldiers, under the command of Lt Col Abdul Kisule, entered the country to rescue their colleagues who had been captured by the Tanzanian police after wandering into foreign territory in 1971.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

13 Nov

Kagera police chief calls for total 'war' on corruption

Kagera police chief calls for total 'war' on corruption
Daily News
THE Kagera Regional Police Commander (RPC), Henry Mwaibambe, has appealed for cooperation from members of the public in the corruption fight crusade. Mr Mwaibambe said the task of battling the vice is a duty of every Tanzanian. “Concerted efforts are ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Jun

The untold story of Kagera War by TZ, Uganda top soldiers

>That day they forced me to withdraw the remaining forces from Mutukula to Bigada. By the time we reached Bigada, everybody was trembling. This really weakened us. In early January 1979, my unit was relieved and went back to Masindi.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Oct

NYERERE DAY: Untold story of how Nyerere won Africa’s deadly war

>As the nation commemorates the 15th anniversary of the death of founding president Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, fresh details  have emerged on how the globally acknowledged statesman built an eight-year-long case as a curtain raiser to  the war against General Idi Amin Dada – one of Africa’s most brutal dictators.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

31 Mar

Disciplining need not be a war

When my son was in middle primary school, he had a memory like a goldfish and was constantly losing pencils, books, lunch-boxes, watches, and anything else that was not firmly attached to his body.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

13 May

It’s a war that has to be won

The decimation of Tanzania’s wild animals is seemingly beyond our control now. This doesn’t help shaping our image as people capable of taking charge of their own affairs.

 

10 years ago

Roots Socialism

01 Jan

Lessons from Nyerere's grass

Mail & Guardian Online
Lessons from Nyerere's grass-roots socialism
Mail & Guardian Online
In Ralph Ibbott's new book, Ujamaa: The Hidden Story of Tanzania's Socialist Villages, we can learn from what the great 1960s anticolonial movements accomplished. The central question for every African country after independence was: How, without capital ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Dec

Involve everyone in the war against corruption

In reflecting on a new report that casts Tanzania in a relatively positive light, a medical analogy comes in handy—that it is unwise for a malaria patient to compare himself to someone suffering from cancer and feel happy.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Toy soldiers at war

The 40 year conflict that remains unresolved

 

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