Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In sub-Saharan Africa one would hardly expect to find a brothel run by two engineers from Bucharest. But in pockmarked Bangui ...

Bokassa thought for a moment — then said that his own resignation was out of the question. It was simply un-African. In due course, the French military overthrew him.

Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed with his wife on Christmas day of 1989, was a maverick and despotic Rumanian Communist leader who pursued an independent course abroad and demanded slavish ...

Florin Iepan, who has recently produced a film called Children of the Decree, said the seeds of the problem were sown in 1967, with Ceausescu's prohibition of birth control. Both abortion and ...

First, Ceausescu continued to run a rigidly hard-line communist state at home. Second, Romania, unlike Hungary or Czechoslovakia, is not strategically important, and Ceausescu`s mild apostasy ...

There was a time when many regarded Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu as a proponent of socialism with a human face. Nothing could be further from the truth.

BUCHAREST, Romania - The mystery of where former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were buried moved closer to resolution Wednesday after forensic scientists dug up their ...