Editing Idi Amin Dada (section)

===Downfall===
By 1978, the number of Amin's supporters and close associates had shrunk significantly, and he faced increasing dissent from the populace within Uganda as the economy and infrastructure collapsed as a result of the years of neglect and abuse. After the killings of Bishop Luwum and ministers Oryema and Oboth Ofumbi in 1977, several of Amin's ministers defected or fled into exile. In November 1978, after Amin's vice president, General Mustafa Adrisi, was injured in a car crash, troops loyal to him mutinied. Amin sent troops against the mutineers, some of whom had fled across the Tanzanian border. Amin accused Tanzanian President [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Julius_Nyerere Julius Nyerere] of waging war against Uganda, and ordered the invasion of Tanzanian territory, formally annexing a section of Kagera.<ref>[https://www.prio.org/publications/10429 The Uganda–Tanzania War, the Fall of Idi Amin, and the Failure of African Diplomacy, 1978–1979], Peace Research Institute Oslo</ref>

In January 1979, Nyerere mobilized the Tanzania People's Defence Force and counterattacked, joined by several groups of Ugandan exiles who had united as the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA). Amin's army retreated steadily, and, despite military help from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Amin was forced to flee into exile by helicopter on 11 April 1979, when Kampala was captured.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/4186254 Review: The Overthrowing of Idi Amin: An Analysis of the War], ''JSTOR''</ref> He escaped first to Libya, where he stayed until 1980, and ultimately settled in Saudi Arabia, where the [[House of Saud|Saudi royal family]] allowed him sanctuary and paid him a generous subsidy in return for staying out of politics.<ref>[https://www.dawn.com/news/135283/idi-amin-led-quiet-life-in-s-arabia Idi Amin led quiet life in S. Arabia], ''Dawn''</ref>

In the following years, he had become an outcast in Africa since no African country wanted to give it political asylum except for Gaddafi who gave him temporary asylum for a year.

He was arrested in 1989 in Zaire while trying to carry out another coup, Saudi Arabia said he would not be allowed to return but the acting king insisted too much.

He remained in Saudi Arabia for the rest of his life until he died from kidney failure in July 2003 all while fulfilling his desire to never set foot in Uganda again.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/world/idi-amin-murderous-and-erratic-ruler-of-uganda-in-the-70-s-dies-in-exile.html Idi Amin, Murderous and Erratic Ruler of Uganda in the 70's, Dies in Exile], ''The New York Times''</ref>