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M2 PRESSWIRE-27 March 2009-BBC: Amin meets Nyerere: BBC Swahili spearheads meeting of the sons(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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BBC World Service will make history on Thursday 9 April as it brings together the families of two former East African leaders whose hostility toward each other led to a fierce war in the late Seventies.

In a major BBC Swahili editorial initiative, Jaffer Remo Amin, the son of Uganda's former President Idi Amin, and Madaraka Nyerere, the son of Tanzania's 'Founding Father' Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, have agreed to meet for the first time.

Led by BBC Swahili, the programming will also feature on the ...

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