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 ...

Join us as we explore the lives and reigns of Francisco Macias Nguema, Fulgencio Batista, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Pol Pot, and Papa Doc Duvalier. Kaitlan Collins shares details on why FBI Deputy ...

Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowns himself emperor in Bangui in December 1977. The former president of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, has been formally rehabilitated by presidential decree.

Pope John Paul II on Wednesday urged Christians in the Central African Republic to fight a legacy of corruption, favoritism and intolerance left by the bloody reign of ousted “emperor” Jean ...

Jean-Bédel Bokassa seized power in a coup on December 31st, 1965 and ruled what is now the Central African Republic (CAR) until he was ousted by French soldiers in 1979.

Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowned himself Emperor of the Central African Republic in a lavish ceremony on the 4th of December 1977. He'd already been President for several years since taking power in a ...

Almost without exception, every ruler of the CAR since independence—David Dacko (1960-66), Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1966-1979), David Dacko (1979-1981), André Kolingba (1981-1993), Ange Félix ...

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.

Jean-Bedel Bokassa was born in a village in 1921 and named after a saint, Jean Baptiste de la Salle. He became a rifleman in the French colonial army in 1931 and quit in 1962, after attaining the rank ...

Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowns himself emperor in Bangui in December 1977. The former president of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, has been formally rehabilitated by presidential decree.