Idi Amin called himself ”a pure son of Africa,” but his bizarre and murderous eight years as president of Uganda typified the worst of the continent’s military dictatorships.

Idi Amin Dada, whose eight-year presidency of African nation Uganda is remembered by the torture and murder of more than 200 000 people, is in a coma in a Saudi hospital, medical…

A top militant and al-Qaeda member wanted in connection with the Riyadh suicide bombings killed himself on Thursday, an interior ministry official said.