Hospital confirms dictator Amin in coma

Idi Amin Dada, one of Africa’s most notorious dictators, is in a coma in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, sources at the hospital said today.

Amin was admitted to the King Faisal Specialised Hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah on Friday. He has been in a coma since his admission and was in the intensive care unit on an artificial respiratory machine, the sources said. They added that Amin has been suffering from high blood pressure and his health condition was deteriorating.