Mobutu Sese Seko

As shock continues over the fate of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who vowed to rule until death but now finds himself in military custody, here's a look at other larger-than-life African leaders who spent years in power, then lost it.
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Rebels from an outlawed political-religious group attacked Kinshasa's central prison yesterday, breaking out their leader and about 50 other prisoners, the Congolese government said.
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By Benjamin Semwayo Recently the Sunday Mail published a story in which Mr Johannes Chikanya, Robert Mugabe's 'twin', asserts that the latter is a prophet without honour in his own country and that people will only realise this when he…
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Opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday said they had forged an alliance and demanded that President Joseph Kabila quit when his term expires in December. After a two-day closed-doors meeting in…
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The bloody end of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was as brutal and ruthless as his 42-year iron rule of the oil rich North African country. However, Gaddafi is not the only dictator who met a violent end because history shows that…
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In this BBC series of viewpoints from African journalists, Zimbabwean film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo writes that the collapse of the Libyan regime is reminiscent of the fall of other African regimes.
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With four demonstrators killed in Abidjan's Treichville district by forces linked to disputed President Laurent Gbagbo after a march to protest the killing of seven women demonstrators earlier, all indications point to the fact that…
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