It can’t be easy being a B-list tyrant. Not only do the
international community consider you a pariah, they also
have no idea how to spell your name. For every Kim
Jong-un throwing a tantrum on the world stage, there are
dozens of equally extreme and murderous leaders no one
outside their immediate neighborhood has ever heard of.


10 Yahya Jammeh
The Gambia
A tiny slither of land on the western bulge of Africa, The
Gambia is one of the strangest-shaped countries on
Earth. But geographical oddities have nothing on the
mental hang-ups of its president, Yahya Jammeh, in
power since a 1994 coup.
Jammeh has compared homosexuality to Satanism and
called it the downfall of civilization. He’s promised to
decapitate any gay people who enter the country .
Explaining why he found homosexuality so abhorrent, he
simply stated: “I have buffaloes from South Africa and
Brazil, and they never date each other.”
His delusions of grandeur are legendary. In 2010, a
government newspaper claimed Obama had personally
given him three awards, including the title “Admiral of
Nebraska”—a real title that Nebraska has bestowed on
people who aren’t Yahya Jammeh. Unfortunately, his ego
is more than matched by his paranoia. Jammeh’s
subjects live in a state of constant fear. People are jailed
and tortured on a whim, and spies are everywhere. The
government even sets up fake protest groups abroad,
hoping to “smoke out” exiled dissidents. A recent attempt
to oust Jammeh in a coup failed.

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9 Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Angola
Vast, oil-rich, and slowly recovering from a brutal civil
war, Angola is shaping up to be Africa’s next big thing. It
has a booming economy, lakes of petroleum, and a
president who is virtually invisible .
Meet Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Africa’s shyest autocrat.
In power since Jimmy Carter was in the White House, dos
Santos has managed to hold on so long by making
himself a total hermit. He doesn’t do speeches, give
interviews, or appear on TV. He doesn’t go to summits or
conferences, rarely leaves the capital, and refuses to
interact with other people . On the few occasions he does
go to a rally, he says nothing that hasn’t been scripted
and rehearsed beforehand. His shyness is so extreme,
some know him as “the silent president.”
The only thing he does openly is corruption. The
opposition accuse him of passing laws to enrich his own
family and clamping down on human rights whenever his
power is challenged. At the same time, an oil boom is
funneling billions into his pockets, while the vast majority
of Angolans live in crushing poverty.

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8 Hassanal Bolkiah
Brunei
A tiny nation on the fringes of Borneo, Brunei is mainly
famous for oil and having a stone-cold love-vendor as its ruler.
The Sultan of Brunei’s palace is by far the biggest in the
world , and his car collection would dwarf that of most
manufacturers. Extreme wealth isn’t the only cartoonish
thing about him. In 2014, he caused an outcry by literally
banning Christmas.
But none of this compares to his obsession with sex.
Thanks to his wealth, Bolkiah can get anything he wants,
and what he wants is women. The Sultan has his own 24-
hour on-call harem, staffed by girls as young as 15 . In
1997, he was even accused of kidnapping a former Miss
United States and keeping her as a sex slave . When she
escaped and tried to sue, he simply claimed diplomatic
immunity.
His brother, Prince Jefferi, is possibly even more
perverted. In 2010, it was revealed that he’d spent $1
million on life-size statues of himself having sex with his
fiance and mistress. Yet, oddly, the people of Brunei don’t
seem to mind these outrages. Rather than keeping them
in abject poverty, Bolkiah simply buys them off with the
most generous government-assistance packages on
Earth.

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7 Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Mbasogo
Equatorial Guinea
The tiny, resource-rich nation of Equatorial Guinea on
Africa’s western coast is home to the continent’s longest-
serving dictator: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
Despite his son’s predilection for blowing the national
budget on Michael Jackson memorabilia , President
Mbasogo’s rule is anything but funny. Infrastructure is
insufficient, and most of the country’s desperately poor
citizens have no access to water or hospitals. Torture is
endemic, and democracy is such a joke that Mbasogo
claimed to have won the 2002 elections with 103 percent
of the vote . In a 2006 article, Der Spiegel said his reign
was comparable to that of Pol Pot.
Perhaps worst of all are the reports of torture camps
where prisoners are routinely strung up and beaten within
an inch of their lives. Human Rights Watch’s page on
Equatorial Guinea is full of unnerving tales of foreign
businessmen kidnapped while inside the country and
violently abused for years. All signs point toward the
starvation and repression of citizens being comparable to
North Korea, yet hardly anyone has ever heard of this tin-
pot tyrant.

6 Isaias Afewerki
Eritrea
An average-sized country on the horn of Africa, Eritrea is
famous for its child soldiers, state-sanctioned torture, and
murdering any citizens who try to flee its borders. There
is no constitution, no independent judiciary, and many of
its citizens spend their lives in literal slavery.
Described by the American ambassador as an “ autocratic
weirdo ,” President Isaias Afewerki is obsessed with self-
sufficiency to the point of starving his people to death
over it. When a crippling famine hit the country in 2009,
he declined the offer of food aid, telling the BBC “foreign
food aid demonizes the local people and makes them
lazy.” Instead, he had his goons go round and confiscate
grain from farmers, exacerbating an already-significant
disaster.
Since then, things have gotten so bad that even the
generals can’t afford to feed themselves. Fearing
rebellion, Afewerki has responded by drafting in 20,000
Ethiopian mercenaries, who now enjoy complete control
over the local population. With the country on the brink of
collapse, many observers are wondering how long the
president can hold on.

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5 Emomali Rahmon
Tajikistan
All you need to know about Tajikistan is contained in the
story of Savriddin Dzhurayev. In 2013, Dzhurayev was
sentenced to prison for trying to overthrow the
government in 1992. In 1992, he was seven years old .
President Emomali Rahmon famously has neither humor
nor common sense. In 2012, he responded to a
devastating food shortage by telling his citizens to store
more and eat less , before blaming the crisis on peasant
farmers who hadn’t followed his instructions. He also
blocked YouTube throughout the entire country after the
above video surfaced of him dancing drunkenly at a
wedding and performing bad karaoke.
But life in Tajikistan isn’t all amusing dictates. Rahmon’s
corruption has bled the already poor country completely
dry . Life for ordinary people is a depressing blend of
terror and repression, with authorities happy to use
torture and threats of rape to subdue the population.

4 Islam Karimov
Uzbekistan
Imagine if every fall, you and your children were forced to
leave your home and job behind and travel to a remote
stretch of the Nevada desert to work as a slave for three
months . Now imagine you got no financial reward, and all
the profits were going directly to Obama. Congratulations:
You now have some idea what the average Uzbek feels
like.
It probably tells you all you need to know about Islam
Karimov that, last year, his government proudly declared
it had reduced child labor. Not “eliminated.” Not “felt sick
at the thought of.” Just “reduced.” In 2014, the
Uzbekistan state honestly congratulated itself for
enslaving slightly fewer children than usual .
Bad as this is, it’s not the worst thing Karimov has done.
Aside from boiling alive two dissidents, he’s authorized
massacres , torture, religious persecution, and the
elimination of freedom of expression. In 2013, he banned
Santa. Even his own family aren’t safe from his whims.
Following a public falling-out last year, his daughter is
now missing, presumed to be rotting in one of
Uzbekistan’s fetid jail cells.

3 Paul Biya
Cameroon
One of central Africa’s most advanced nations, Cameroon
has one of the highest corruption levels in the world . It
also has one of the weirdest dictators: former Prime
Minister Paul Biya, who spends more time out of the
country than in it.
For a man who wants to be remembered for bringing
democracy to Cameroon , Biya sure has done a lot to
undermine it. In power since 1982, he’s been accused of
rigging elections, silencing the opposition, and jailing
journalists who dare to speculate about his health. A
strictly hands-off ruler, he prefers to spend as much time
out of the country as possible, returning only to remind
people he’s still alive and line his pockets with as much
public money as possible. According to the BBC, high-
ranking members of his government are frequently hired
and go their entire political careers without setting eyes
on him.
For the average Cameroonian, life under Biya is far from
peachy. In 2009, his forces massacred 100 unarmed
protestors , and anyone who doesn’t toe the party line is
liable to have a violent run-in with his security services.

2 King Hamad Al-Khalifa
Bahrain
Soaking in oil and stuffed to the gills with money, Bahrain
is the smallest gulf state. The island was once thought by
the ancient Sumerians to be paradise on Earth . Under the
rule of King Hamad Al-Khalifa, it’s more like Dante’s
Inferno .
A rich, Sunni autocrat, King Hamad Al-Khalifa has spent
so long making life miserable for his impoverished Shiite
citizens that it’s practically second nature. In 2011, he
had the Saudi army violently crush protests against his
rule, a move triggered mainly by his desire to host the
Formula One Grand Prix free from hassle. To ensure he
got his way, security services detained and tortured
dissidents, with multiple deaths recorded in custody.
Since then, things have only gotten worse for the average
citizen. In 2014, it was made illegal to offend the national
emblem, and people—including a pregnant woman—have
gone to prison for tearing up pictures or making jokes on
social media. Bizarrely, the king had previously ratified a
UN agreement specifically rejecting such punishments.

That's quite a list . Nice one
Bt... No pictures

1 King Mswati III
Swaziland
Frequently described as “an island of dictatorship in a sea
of democracy,” Swaziland is almost entirely encircled by
neighboring South Africa. Under absolute ruler King
Mswati, it’s less a functioning country and more a 14-
year-old boy’s fantasy.
Remember pervert Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei?
He’s got nothing on King Mswati. A playboy with a taste
for women, the ruler of one of Africa’s poorest nations
has 13 wives already, along with countless mistresses.
Every year, he hosts a dance where over 10,000 bare-
breasted virgins compete to become wife number 14.
Aside from being a bigamist, the king is also a
megalomaniac with an eye for expensive projects. In
2014, he opened a brand new airport in the middle of
nowhere before it had been granted an aviation license or
anyone had agreed to fly there. The cost of the airport
was calculated to be around 10 percent of the country’s
GDP. Meanwhile, nearly everyone in the country was
living below the poverty line, many dying from HIV
infection .
We could go on and tell you about the horrifyingly low
life-expectancy , or the pervasive state violence against
anyone who disagrees with the king, but it’s too
depressing. Instead, we’ll simply link you to this story of
Mswati’s brand-new private jet and this account of
starvation and crippling rural poverty in Swaziland.

That Bahraini King Hamad Al-Khalifa is an animal. the way he was cracking down on protesters was plain evil. the media was nit covering it and US didnt say a word about it.talk of double standards and hypocrisy!

What the op saying Ehn