Although it became independent on October 12, 1968, Equatorial Guinea suffered over a decade of brutal dictatorship, marked by coups, under Francisco Macias Nguema, who was accused of engineering ...

From El Salvador to South Sudan, inside America’s global prison pipeline with Noah Bullock of Cristosal and investigative ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's "dictatorship" is doomed, exiled novelist Sergio Ramirez has told AFP, predicting the ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s former President Joseph Kabila on Friday accused the government of turning into a dictatorship with the backing of the parliament a day after the Senate voted to ...

The top United Nations court on Monday sided with Equatorial Guinea in a decades-long dispute with Gabon over three tiny islands in potentially oil-rich waters.The two West African nations have been ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo's former President Joseph Kabila on Friday accused the government of turning into a dictatorship with the backing of the parliament a day after the Senate voted to lift ...

Fifty years after the death of General Francisco Franco, thousands of monuments, plaques and street names honouring the dictator remain in place across Spain -- a legacy some believe has lingered far ...

Born in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil in 1944, he initially studied economics in São Paulo, before finding his feet in a revolutionary leftwing group working against the 1964–85 Brazilian military ...