The crowds chanted “long live Gaddafi.”
A huge mosque begun more than 30 years ago by the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has opened in the Ugandan capital. The mosque is named after Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi who helped finance its construction when funds ran low.
As Libya’s leader opened the mosque, which holds some 15,000 worshippers and dominates Kampala’s skyline, a large crowd chanted “long live Gaddafi”.
Amin, who lived in Saudi Arabia after he fled Uganda in 1979, dreamt of building Africa’s largest mosque. A number of other African heads of state attended the ceremony, including the presidents of Somalia, Zanzibar and Djibouti.n
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April 2008 |