This 04 December 1977 file photo shows former Central African Republic leader Jean Bedel Bokassa during hiscoronation in Bangui in the Central African Republic.

Bokassa thought for a moment — then said that his own resignation was out of the question. It was simply un-African. In due course, the French military overthrew him.

For a time, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who came to be known as the “Butcher of Bangui,” was the very embodiment of the extravagant African tyrant.In 1977, his country mired in poverty, the former ...

A dilapidated French chateau that once belonged to the ruthless leader of the Central African Republic, the late Jean-Bedel Bokassa, was sold for euro915,000 ($1.2 million) Wednesday, a lawyer s ...

Auctioneers on Wednesday plan to sell a dilapidated chateau outside Paris that once belonged to one of Africa's most ruthless dictators, the late Jean-Bedel Bokassa of Central African Republic.

Photos from the ruined palace of Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, home to several hundred rag-tag army recruits caught up in the chaos that has enveloped the Central African Republic.

Russia's militarized push into the devastated but mineral-rich Central African Republic is one step toward shifting Africa's power dynamic from West to East: "There will be a battle, and it will ...

Leconte plans Bokassa project "Carlos" producer Daniel Leconte is developing a film-TV hybrid project about Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the late dictator of the Central African Republic.

Jean-Bedel Bokassa, 75, one of Africa’s most ruthless dictators who was accused of slaughtering and eating some of his critics, died of a heart attack Sunday in Bangui, Central African Republic.