The relationship between Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and Daniel arap Moi had deteriorated so badly in the late 1970s during the military operation to overthrow Ugandan dictator Idi Amin that the Tanzanian President had to go through the Americans to pass an urgent message to his Kenyan counterpart, recently released documents reveal.
Mwalimu Nyerere, whose forces had invaded Uganda to depose dictator Idi Amin in 1979, desperately wanted Kenya to cooperate by cutting off oil supply to Uganda which would then incapacitate Amin’s military.
