dictators

Fidel Castro: I Thought I'd Be Dead By Now 9:28am UK, Thursday 15 August 2013 The retired Cuban leader writes in a Communist newspaper that he did not expect to live for many years after his 2006 illness. Fidel Castro has said he never expected to see his 87th birthday after serious illness...

Bingu wa Mutharika Bingu wa Mutharika, who has died aged 78, was an eccentric and wayward president of Malawi who threw away a reputation for being modestly successful and began leading his bewildered country to ruin. Photo: AFP/GETTY 6:42PM BST 10 Apr 2012 A brittle and mercurial man...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:42a.m. A newspaper in Zimbabwe is reporting that the country's dictator Robert Mugabe is close to death in a Singapore Hospital. The Zimbabwe Mail says the Mugabe's family has flown to the hospital to be with him. He's reported to have agreed...