Opposition leaders have demanded the resignation of Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen over the death of 22-year-old Boniface Kariuki.

In view of what happened last week, on June 25, if those in power ignore or misinterpret what happened, the consequences will ...

Share I thought I was seeing double when I first saw the report on social media that the Nigeria Union of Journalists, the professional body to which I belong, has awarded a “Lifetime” award to the ...

Originally published in 1997, the book recounts the turbulent political career of Jean-Bedel Bokassa (1921-1996), the flamboyant president-for-life and later emperor of the Central African Republic ...

Join us as we explore the lives and reigns of Francisco Macias Nguema, Fulgencio Batista, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Pol Pot, and Papa Doc Duvalier. Watch as Texas high school football game ends with ...

Join us as we explore the lives and reigns of Francisco Macias Nguema, Fulgencio Batista, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Pol Pot, and Papa Doc Duvalier. 'Big beautiful bill' could be 'most consequential ...

13 The murky green pool in another tyrant's palace known as Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa who was found with frozen bodies, bones and diamond filled chests in his houses Credit: Getty ...

We have run the gamut of would-be-dictators (Joseph Rao Kony, Foday Saybana Sankoh, etc.) and actual dictatorships (Idi Amin Dada Oumee, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Sani Abacha, etc.).

In Bangui, I looked for any remnants of Bokassa’s chamber of horrors, and I found none. Along Nasser Avenue, I was shown a house where one of his elderly widows lives. But the biggest surprise ...