 Amin lived for a number of years on the top two floors of the Novotel Hotel on Palestine Road in Jeddah.Brian Barron, who covered the Uganda–Tanzania war for the BBC as chief Africa correspondent, together with cameraman Mohamed Amin (no relation) of Visnews in Nairobi, located Amin in 1980, and secured the first interview with him since his deposition.While in exile, Amin funded remnants of his army that fought in the Ugandan Bush War.