PARAMARIBO (Reuters) -Suriname's fugitive former President Desi Bouterse has died aged 79, the country's government said on ...

"The government has been informed through the family and its own investigations of the passing of Mr. D. Bouterse, ex-President of the Republic of Suriname," Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin told ...

Mr. Bouterse was a divisive figure in the former Dutch colony of Suriname: a national hero to some and a brutal dictator to others. Born to a poor family in Suriname’s sugar belt on Oct.

He was 79. Suriname's President Chan Santokhi on Wednesday reflected on Bouterse's outsized legacy in a message of condolences to his family and called on the nation to "keep calm and maintain ...

Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname then returned ... in a message of condolences to his family and called on the nation to "keep calm ...