I wish most African leaders behaved like Robert Mugabe and resigned when their time was up rather than plunging their countries into unnecessary war or causing themselves untimely death.But lets take a look at some fallen African dictators.

Top fallen african dictators
10-ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI (TUNISIA: 1987–2011)
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was the President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. Ben Ali, he assumed the Presidency in a bloodless coup, a month after he was appointed the prime minister. He led Tunisia for 23 years before stepping down in January 2011 due to a massive protests demanding his exit.During his tenure Tunisia witnessed stability and economic prosperity In 2012, in abstention, he was sentenced to a life imprisonment for his role in the murders of protesters in the 2011 revolution that led to his exit from power. Embezzlement, misuse of public funds, suppressing political opponents are some of the sins of one of Africa’s longest-serving dictators.

9.Gnassingbé Eyadema remains one of Africa’s longest-serving dictator. Eyadema became the president of Togo in 1967 after he led a military coup against the incumbent President, a man he helped bring to power in a bloody military coup. He died of a heart attack in 2005, and his son Faure was named the President of Togo in controversial circumstances He led Togo for 38 years.Eyadema is the pioneer of Africa’s first military coup d’etat, an act that soon became the political trend in Africa. He organized a presidential election in 1998 and canceled “in the interests of national security” when he was losing. He was accused of several cases of human right abuses.

8.Charles Taylor once described as the “tyrant of death” was the President of Liberia from August 1997 until 2003 when international pressure forced him to resign and go into exile in Nigeria. He remains one of the most brutal dictators in Africa till date.He led Liberia for 6 years.Which still remains the bloddiest years in the era of modern day Liberia Charles Taylor is currently serving a 50-year sentence for his involvement in what the judge described as “some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history.” He was found guilty of the following charges: Acts of terrorism, Unlawful killings, Murder, Violence to life, health and physical or mental well-being of persons,

7. FRANCISCO MACÍAS NGUEMA (EQUATORIAL GUINEA: 1968-1979)
Francisco Nguema was the first President of Equatorial Guinea; he ruled Equatorial Guinea before his nephew in 1979 overthrew him and sentenced Him to death by Firing squad for genocide and other crimes he committed. He was brutal and apparently deranged, and he is one of the worst dictators in modern African history.He ruled for 11 years.During his regime, he granted himself “all direct powers of Government and Institutions.” He ordered the death of entire families and villages; he executed members of his family, One-third of the population fled the country, he ordered every boat in the nation sold or destroyed and banned all citizens from the shoreline to prevent more people from escaping his terror.
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6.Hissene Habre seized power in 1982 from Goukouni Oueddei, who had just been democratically elected President, he was overthrowed by His former military commander officer Idriss Deby in December 1990. Habre fled to Senegal when Deby’s Libya backed insurgents marched into the capital, N’Djaména. In May 2016, he was convicted of crimes against humanity.He led Chad for 8 years which were filled with terror.
Hissene Habre’s government is known for the death of 40,000 political opponents, and there are documented cases of at least 200,000 tortures in Habre’s brutal eight-year rule of Chad

5.Sani Abacha became the head of state of Nigeria in 1993 after he sacked the interim president appointed after the annulment of the 1993 elections. The exact details of the dictator’s death in the presidential palace in 1998 remains unclear, but it was met by wide celebration and soon after Nigeria returned to a democratic path.He led nigeria for 5 years and during those years Nigeria witnesed a massive economic success. Foreign exchange reserves rose from $494 million in 1993 to $9.6 billion by the middle of 1997. External debt was reduced from $36 billion in 1993 to $27 billion by 1997; inflation rate went down from the 54% he inherited to 8.5% between 1993 and 1998, and global oil price was priced at an average of $15 per barrel.’

But never the less General Sani Abacha’s regime was characterized by massive looting and human right abuses such as the public hanging of political activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and jailing several political opponents.

4.General Yakubu Gowon he became head of state after he overthrew his boss and then head of state of Nigeria,Gen Aguiyi Ironsi In a military coup known as the northern counter coup organised by late murtala muhammed.During his rein more than 1 million people died mostly “little children”in the civil war in which he lead the Nigerian troops agains the biafran soldiers.He was later overthrowed in a bloodless coup led by Murtala Muhamed.

3.Mobutu seseko
Mobutu mishandled his nation’s economy almost from the beginning. Once secure in power, he tried to exploit Zaire’s natural mineral riches, but he and his backers lacked the personnel, infrastructure, and business ethos to make it work. Even worse, his decision in 1973 to nationalize all other economic assets owned by foreigners led to a catastrophic decline in national productivity and wealth. Humiliated by his financial woes, Mobutu returned farms and factories to their original owners, but a fall in the world price of copper further devasted the Zairian economy.
Through the 1980s and into the 1990s, Mobutu grew ever more entrenched and corrupt and ever more suspicious of attempts to liberalize his rule. He made some halfhearted concessions toward free speech and democracy in the early ’90s, but was unable to yield any real power. He ruled Zaire for nearly 32 years with a combination of brutal repression and unbridled greed that impoverished his citizens while earning him millions.

2.muhamar Gaddafi

Under Gaddafi, Libya became the first developing country to own a majority share of the revenues from its oil production. Gaddafi provided access to free health care, safe houses, food and clean drinking water, free education to university level which led to the dramatic rise in literacy rates. He led oil-rich Libya as an absolute dictator, for close to 42 years, he quashed anyone that opposed him, and was responsible for the death of thousands of his people.He was killed by hiw own people rumour has it that he was sodomized with a stick when found before been killed.
Under gaddafi Libyan farmers were properly supplied with whatever thwy wanted,they were given trucks to aid their farming occupation.Hes a fallen dictator but still one of africa”s greatest leaders

1.
Idi Amin seized power in the military coup of January 1971, sacking Milton Obote. Idi Amin fled Uganda in the heat of the Uganda-Tanzania war and went into exile in Libya and then Saudi Arabia where he lived until his death on 16 August 2003.He led Uganda for 8 years
Amin’s rule was characterized by rumors of cannibalism, frightening human rights abuses, political repression, several extrajudicial killings, corruption, and gross economic mismanagement. International observers and human rights groups estimate the death toll of his regime to be around 500,000.This is one man whom his regime was characterised with 100 percent evil.Nothing was recored in his regime ,no economic improvement etc.

Source-http://www.metrodailies.com/top-fallen-african-dictators/

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6. Hissen Habre was presidend of Chad , not Niger.

panafrican:
6. Hissen Habre was presidend of Chad , not Niger.

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