Amin close to death

IDI AMIN DADA, the ex-Ugandan president and one of Africa's most notorious dictators, is in a coma and close to death in a Saudi Arabian hospital, sources at the hospital said yesterday.

Amin was admitted to the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah on Friday. "His situation is very bad, we don't expect him to last until tomorrow," said a hospital official.

Amin has been in coma since his