October 29, 1978, the Ugandan invasion force killed the Tanzanian soldiers guarding the border post and occupied Kagera Salient Tanzania territory, ‘within 25 minutes’, as announced by Amin ...

Before the 1978/79 Kagera War with the then dictator Idi Amin , people in the Kagera Salient lived peacefully. They were cultivating various cash and food crops including bananas, coffee, maize ...

The exact cause of President Idi Amin’s annexation of the Kagera salient—1,800km2 strip of land bestriding the Kagera River, in the corridor between Rwanda and Lake Victoria—in Tanzania has ...