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Former president Mr Idi Ami Dada is dead. Amin, 78, passed away at exactly 7 a.m. Ugandan time on Saturday. Sources said that Amin's latest wife, whom he married a few months ago, was at his bedside when he died. Her name was not disclosed. Amin's family members in Kampala declined to comment on the death of the former leader. They said one of his sons, Mr Jaffer Amin working with DHL courier company, is the only one authorised to talk about his father's death. Amin had been in a coma at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was buried on Saturday in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, where he had earlier died in hospital after being critically ill for weeks. "He is buried. The family decided and we have buried him in Jeddah," Ali Amin told Reuters by telephone from his home in Jinja, 50 miles east of the Ugandan capital Kampala. An official at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah where Amin died told Reuters his body had been taken out for burial in the Red Sea city. One of Africa's bloodiest despots, Amin had...

Fox is quoting AP as saying that Idi Amin has died.

Ex-leader's body has rejected two kidneys Former President Idi Amin Dada's life is hanging onto a haemo-dialysis machine, which acts as an external kidney, family sources have said. Amin needs a new kidney to stay alive, the sources added. Medical sources told The Monitor that a dialyser is a piece of medical equipment through which blood is passed for purification, and then back into the body. It is normally used with patients whose kidneys have failed. The dialyser removes impurities like urea, excess salts and uric acid. If the urea is not removed, it affects the brain among others...

'Big Daddy' living out his final act Idi Amin denied any atrocities and said he wanted to be remembered only as an athlete As the former dictator lies in a coma, Riccardo Orizio recalls an interview with the man who left Uganda awash with blood. Idi Amin once humiliated four Britons by making them carry his sedan chair. The African master of cruel farce and bloodstain parody has done it again. Apparently hours from death in a Saudi hospital, Idi Amin has emerged from a coma to defy the world once more with his unique form of black theatre....

JEDDAH, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Former dictator Idi Amin, blamed for the murder of tens of thousands of Ugandans in the 1970s, has received death threats at a Saudi hospital where he has been critically ill for weeks, a medical source said on Sunday. Staff at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah got the threats by telephone on Saturday, prompting mangers to post a permanent guard in Amin's room and another at the entrance to intensive care, the source said. "Security measures were dramatically increased in the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital...

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin remained in stable condition on Tuesday at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of King Faisal Specialist Hospital in this Saudi Red Sea city, a hospital source said. "He is still in the intensive care unit, but he is in a stable condition," the source said. Amin, a Muslim now in his eighties, was admitted to hospital on July 18 and went into coma. Hospital sources said he came out of the coma six days later, but remained in critical condition under close watch by doctors. Hospital officials refused to specify...

DOCTORS have finally given ailing former President Idi Amin the status of “do not resuscitate”. This is the first time that Amin’s hitherto tight-lipped doctors have come out explicitly about his failing health. Medical sources at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, a top Saudi medical centre in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, told Reuters and Sky News yesterday that “should he encounter further life threatening problems, resuscitation will not be attempted.” Amin, in his late 70s and liable for the murders of tens of thousands of Ugandans in the 1970s, has now been declared by doctors at the posh...

Amin sickness divides family Deep misunderstandings have developed among family members of former President Idi Amin Dada, currently in a coma in Saudi Arabia. Sources in the Amin family told Sunday Monitor that the issue of Amin’s failing health had been kept secret for three months. Sunday Monitor on July 20 exclusively broke news of Amin’s sickness to the chagrin of some family members. “When the news broke out some family members wrongly accused Madina Amin [one of the former president’s wives] of having issued a press statement about mzee’s sickness to media organisations in Uganda,” said a family...

Madina stays to nurse Amin Ms Madina Amin did not return home yesterday as expected. She chose to remain in Saudi Arabia to continue attending her husband, former President Idi Amin. Amin's daughter, Hajira, arrived alone yesterday aboard the British Airways flight BA 063. It is the same flight that should have brought back Madina. Said a family source: "The condition in which Mzee is could not permit her to leave him. She is still in Saudi Arabia." Madina Amin flew to Saudi Arabia on July 21. Also initially expected to return with her yesterday were Amin's sons, Mr...

Madina Amin returns home He is alive, says family Ms Madina Amin was due home in Kampala this morning. The wife of former President Idi Amin flew to Saudi Arabia on July 21 to attend her ailing husband who is admitted to a Jeddah hospital. Yesterday, CNN ran news flashes claiming that Mr Amin had died. It later transpired that the CNN journalists had misread a profile of Amin on the BBC website! When The Monitor contacted Mr Nuhu Byarufu, the second secretary at Uganda's embassy in Saudi Arabia, the diplomat said that he had no new information about...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Doctors said Idi Amin, blamed for the murders of tens of thousands of Ugandans during his bloody dictatorship in the 1970s, was still alive in a Saudi hospital Tuesday. "He is still in intensive care and alive," a Saudi doctor at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah told Reuters. He refused to give details on whether Amin was in critical condition. Amin came out of coma last week and was said to be then in serious condition. Earlier last week, the hospital said Amin might not survive. Amin has lived in exile, mainly...

Amin son starts rebel group - govt Brig. Kale Kayihura has said exiled former president Idi Amin’s son is training a rebel group to attack Uganda from DR Congo. Kayihura is the UPDF Chief Political Commissar and former commander of the Ugandan troops in eastern DR Congo. “We have information that Taban Amin is recruiting and has set a base near the Uganda border,” Kayihura told Sunday Monitor yesterday. He said Taban is working with the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC) and a local rebel group RCD-ML led by Mbusa Nyamwisi. Nyamwisi is now part of Dr Congo President Joseph...

Idi Amin is said to have ordered the murder of 100,000 Ugandans in the 1970s, but death has not yet claimed the former strongman himself. Last week, as it emerged that Britain had made secret plans for an airborne assault on Uganda during the tense summer of 1972, Amin was in the intensive care unit of King Faisal Specialist Hospital, having been admitted with high blood pressure. After five days in a coma, however, he is once again breathing without the aid of a ventilator, though doctors say his condition remains "critical", and his sons and daughters are staying...

Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator, has been given permission to return to die in the country he destroyed. Should he die before he can go home to the country he fled 24 years ago, Amin's body will be repatriated from Saudi Arabia for burial in accordance with a request from one of his wives, the Ugandan government said yesterday. Amin, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own citizens during a nine-year reign of terror in the 1970s, has been in a coma for five days. Doctors said he was in "a vegetative state and...

Cabinet to rule on Amin's fate The Cabinet will decide former President Idi Amin's fate. Mr Amin is ailing in Saudi Arabia, where he lives in exile. His family recently asked the government to let him return and "die from home". The Prime Minister, Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, told reporters yesterday that the Cabinet would debate whether Amin should return home, dead or alive. Nsibambi spoke to reporters at Parliament. According to Nsibambi, it is better for Amin to be treated in Saudi Arabia because medical services are better there. The prime minister said that if the former president died,...

Ms Madina Amin yesterday said that her husband is ailing because of advanced age and overweight. She said that Mr Idi Amin Dada, 80, who was yesterday still in coma, weighs about 220 kilogrammes. “At his age and then the fact that he is overweight there is little hope that he will fully recover. Salongo is so overweight that am sure it is part of the problem,” Madina told The Monitor yesterday as she prepared to travel to Saudi Arabia to attend her husband. She said that Amin gained a lot of weight because he had stopped working out....

Former Ugandan leader Idi Amin - whose 1971 to 1979 regime was one of the bloodiest in African history - reportedly remains in a coma after three days on a life support machine. A hospital official told the Associated Press news agency that his condition had deteriorated on Monday after stabilising on Sunday. "He is still alive. But he remains in critical condition in the intensive care unit" at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, one of Saudi Arabia's top medical centres, another medical source at the hospital was quoted as saying by...

The former dictator ougandais Idi Amin Dada in the coma in Saudi Arabia The former dictator ougandais Idi Amin Dada, with the capacity of 1971 to 1979, is in the coma and under respiratory assistance in Saudi Arabia, indicated Saturday to the AFP one of his wives. "It was said to me that it was in the coma and under respiratory assistance. We still await information ", declared Madina Amin, joined by telephone to Kampala. Idi Amin Dada lives in exile in Saudi Arabia since it was renversé."Nous contacted the government (of Kampala), in order to ask whether, in...