The Ugandan Bush War was a civil war fought in Uganda by the official Ugandan government and its armed wing, the Uganda National Liberation Army, against a number of rebel groups, most importantly the
North Korea under Kim Il Sung (pictured) was one of Obote's foreign allies during the Bush War, and provided military equipment as well as advisors.
Much of the fighting during the Ugandan Bush War took place in the countryside (pictured: farmland and adjacent wilderness at Mbazzi, central Uganda).
The "Butuntumula War Memorial Mass Grave", one of many mass graves for victims of the Bush War across Uganda.
The Uganda–Tanzania War, known in Tanzania as the Kagera War and in Uganda as the 1979 Liberation War, was fought between Uganda and Tanzania from October 1978 until June 1979 and led to the overthrow
Ugandan Bush War
…Obote was overthrown in a coup d'état in 1971 by General Idi Amin, who established a military dictatorship. Amin was overthrown in 1979 following the Uganda-Tanzania War, but his loyalists started the Bush War by launching an insurgency in the West Nile region in 1980. Subsequent elections saw Obote return to power in…
Ugandan President Idi Amin (1977)
Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere (1976)
The Uganda Army Air Force repeatedly bombed Bukoba (pictured in 2017) during the early stages of the war.
Mozambique under Samora Machel (pictured in 1985) was one of the few countries to aid Tanzania during the war.