DOCTORS treating Tanzania’s founding president Julius Nyerere in London said he is now brain dead and being kept alive by a life-support machine. The Kiswahili language Mtanzania newspaper quoted unidentified doctors as saying that results of brain scans conducted Monday night on the 77-year-old Nyerere, show his brain is not functioning and that he is unlikely to regain consciousness. Earlier, a government statement said Nyerere’s condition remained critical with several of his vital organs “very weak”. Nyerere, who led his country to independence from Britain, was admitted to St. Thomas’s hospital in London on September 9 suffering from leukemia.