Dictator Idi Amin 'in a coma'

Idi Amin Dada, one of Africa’s most notorious dictators, is in a coma in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported today.

The independent Sunday Monitor said 80-year-old Amin, who seized power in 1971 and was ousted in 1979, was admitted to hospital on Friday and went into a coma.