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The African dictator who crowned himself king and emptied the nation's treasury

Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the self-proclaimed emperor of the Central African Republic, ruled with terror and excess. From a ...
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Is Chadian dictator's life sentence a turning point for African justice?

Chadian lawyer Jacqueline Moudeina represented the victims during Habre's trial by a special court. Jacqueline Moudeina (C) and Assane Dilma Ndiaye (R), lawyers of the plaintiffs in the case of former ...
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In DR Congo, exhibit reveals nostalgia for former dictator Mobutu

An illustration of former Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) President Mobutu Sese Seko, at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Gombe commune in Kinshasa (Arsene Mpiana | AFP via Getty Images) ...
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Oil Workers, Snagged in a Dispute Over a Dictator’s Son’s Yacht, Are Freed After Two Years

Equatorial Guinea’s dictator freed two South African oil workers that his regime had imprisoned for years in apparent retaliation for an unrelated legal dispute involving the ruling family’s ...
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In DR Congo, exhibit reveals nostalgia for former dictator Mobutu

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Young people gaze up at large photographs of Mobutu Sese Seko, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) national museum. A charismatic and outrageously ...