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...

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...

(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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

political strife, including the tenures of Idi Amin, Yusuf Lule and Godfrey Binaisa, meant no elections were held until the presidential election of December...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

altogether. This disagreement contributed to the NCC replacing Lule with Godfrey Binaisa in June 1979. Shortly after, Legal Notice No. 5 of 1980 provided for...

Matovu: 1977 to 1979 Godfrey Lule: 1974 to 1977 Peter James Nkambo Mugerwa: 1971 to 1974 Lameck Lubowa: 1967 to 1971 Godfrey Binaisa: 1962 to 1967 Ralph...

Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000) May 30 Godfrey Binaisa, President of Uganda (d. 2010) James F. Leonard, American diplomat...