Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa QC (30 May 1920 – 5 August 2010) was a Ugandan lawyer and politician who served as the fifth president of Uganda from June 1979...

for just 68 days, the shortest tenure of any President of Uganda. Godfrey Binaisa, the former Attorney General of Uganda under Obote who had come to...

Minister of Internal Affairs under the leadership of both Yusuf Lule and Godfrey Binaisa. Despite facing challenges within the government, Muwanga's resilience...

infighting leading to the ousting of Lule in June 1979. His replacement, Godfrey Binaisa, ruled for less than twelve months before being placed under house...

prevented the Ugandan rebels from overthrowing Amin themselves. President Godfrey Binaisa, Lule's successor, praised the Tanzanian intervention. Most Western...

(Deposed in a coup) 68 days Independent (UNLF) Position abolished 5 Godfrey Binaisa (1920–2010) — 20 June 1979 12 May 1980 (Deposed in a coup) 327 days...

Lule was forcibly removed from office and exiled. He was replaced by Godfrey Binaisa, a Muganda like Lule, but one who had previously served as a high-ranking...

challenge Obote from within his party at the UPC Buganda conference where Godfrey Binaisa (the Attorney General) was ousted by a faction believed to have the...

Prime Minister of the Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling, President of Uganda Godfrey Binaisa, Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Prime Minister of...

# Position Name Inaugurated Left Office National Resistance Army — Godfrey Binaisa 5 May 1980 5 May 1980 1 Chairmen (rotating monthly) Paulo Muwanga 5...

Idi Amin, President (1971–1979) Yusuf Lule, Interim President (1979) Godfrey Binaisa, President (1979–1980) Paulo Muwanga, President (1980) Presidential...

Queen Remembers VE Day 1945", The Way We Were (Interview), interviewed by Godfrey Talbot, BBC Radio 4, 8 May 1985, retrieved 4 April 2024 – via YouTube;...

Presidential Commission. The other two presidents were Yusuf Lule and Godfrey Binaisa. The elections in 1980 were won by Obote's Uganda People's Congress...

the NCC replaced Lule with Godfrey Binaisa. In a continuing dispute over the powers of the interim presidency, Binaisa was removed in May 1980. Thereafter...

declared president, but was soon removed from office and replaced by Godfrey Binaisa. Binaisa too was only in power for a brief time, and the 1980 general election...

Front" (UPF). Exiled politician Godfrey Binaisa was appointed head of the UPF. While being based in London, Binaisa decided to organize an invasion from...

in the UNLF.[citation needed] Lule was replaced by another Muganda, Godfrey Binaisa who was seen as more of a figurehead. Real power now lay with Oyite...

Mkapa John Magufuli Ali Hassan Mwinyi Julius Nyerere Beji Caid Essebsi Godfrey Binaisa Mutesa II of Buganda Milton Obote Jacob Oulanyah Levy Mwanawasa Frederick...

following the Uganda-Tanzania War. Former Ugandan Attorney General Godfrey Binaisa was appointed as the new President of Uganda and would serve until...

grew to 8,000; Ojok's original 600 became 24,000. When then-President Godfrey Binaisa sought to curb the use of these militias, which were harassing and...

powerful National Consultative Committee on 20 June 1979. His successor, Godfrey Binaisa, was also deposed in May 1980, whereupon the UNLF's Military Commission...

Earlier that year, Lopez Portillo, along with former Ugandan President Godfrey Binaisa, former Algerian Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi and other politicians...

Akinbiyi – Bishop of Offa and Akoko D. J. Ambalavanar – Bishop of Jaffna Godfrey Ashby – Bishop of St John's David Atkinson – Bishop of Thetford Harold...

from Arua town. In the late 1970s, the Ugandan president at the time Godfrey Binaisa declared that all districts/provinces acquire their names from their...

Democratic Change party; presidential candidate in 2001, 2006, and 2011 Godfrey Binaisa, former president of Uganda Gilbert Bukenya, former vice president...

Liberation Movement against Idi Amin. May 12, 1980: Paulo Muwanga overthrew Godfrey Binaisa. July 27, 1985: Tito Okello Lutwa overthrew Milton Obote. January 26...

since 2006, member of the Ugandan parliament representing Bukonjo West Godfrey Binaisa - Fifth president of Uganda Jehoash Mayanja Nkangi - Justice minister...

Kuzin, Civil Rights attorney J. L. Chestnut, former Ugandan president Godfrey Binaisa, and others. Chestnut was interviewed in the Tuscaloosa News saying...

Tanzania, as prisoner of war number 17341. In June 1980, President Godfrey Binaisa negotiated the return of the political prisoners to Uganda. They were...

than the white minority governments in southern Africa. President Godfrey Binaisa, Lule's successor, praised the Tanzanian intervention. Despite the...