A ruler who uses their power to steal their country’s resources.Africa's problem is one of despots and kleptocrats....
Sadly, it was the oligarchs, the kleptocrats and Western companies that benefited most from the increased prices.
Most commentators argue that it will stand or fall on whether the continent's leaders possess the will to deal with dictators and kleptocrats.
Derivatives
kleptocracy
/klɛpˈtɒkrəsi /noun...
Then the country's emergent civil society collapsed beneath post-communist repression and the kleptocracy of regional robber barons.
It is ruled by a corrupt kleptocracy of aristocrats who use their control of state monopolies and even the tax system to enrich themselves at the public's expense.
The antidote to kleptocracy is the age-old story of democratic struggle.
kleptocratic
/klɛptəˈkratɪk /adjective...
Aristide agreed to pay the debts accumulated under the kleptocratic Duvalier dictatorships, slash the civil service, open up Haiti to ‘free trade’ and cut import tariffs on rice and corn.
During the 32-year long kleptocratic rule of the authoritarian president Soeharto the huge Indonesian archipelago was ruled from Jakarta.
Many of those who speak at the UN are representative of no one save the kleptocratic or autocratic cliques who hold power by force in their respective states.