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The world’s longest-serving leaders

August 20, 2019
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1 August 2019

FILES) In this file photo taken on June 8, 2019 Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (R) inspects an honour guard in Libreville during a ceremony commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of Gabon’s former president Omar Bongo. – Teodoro Obiang Nguema, president of Equatorial Guinea for 40 years on August 3, 2019, is the world’s longest-serving living leader apart from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, on the throne for 67 years. (Photo by STEVE JORDAN / AFP)

PARIS: Teodoro Obiang Nguema, president of Equatorial Guinea for 40 years on Saturday, is the world’s longest-serving living leader apart from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, on the throne for 67 years.

Africa’s longest-serving ruler was also a monarch: Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie reigned for 44 years before being removed in 1974 in a military coup.

Apart from monarchs, who are usually installed for life, here are the leaders who have ruled for the longest.

Leading the pack is Cuba’s revolutionary hero Fidel Castro, with 49 years in power. When he handed over in 2008, ill and aged in his early 80s, it was to his brother Raul.

Taiwan’s first president Chiang Kai-shek was in charge on the island and in mainland China for a total of 47 years until his death in 1975.

North Korea’s founder Kim Il Sung ran the reclusive state for 46 years before dying in office in 1994, remaining revered as the “eternal leader.”

Moamer Kadhafi ruled Libya with an iron fist for almost 42 years before being ousted and then slaughtered in 2011 by rebels at the height of the Arab Spring uprisings.

Omar Bongo Ondimba governed oil-rich Gabon for more than 41 years until his death from cancer in 2009.

Albania’s communist dictator Enver Hoxha was in power for 40 years until his death in 1985.

Still adding up their time at the top are:

– Cameroon’s President Paul Biya at 37 years;

– Congo-Brazzaville’s Denis Sassou Nguesso at 35 years, excluding a five-year pause after he lost a 1992 election;

– Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, 34 years;

– Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, 33 years;

– Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been supreme leader since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989.

Following close behind are these presidents:

– Chad’s Idriss Deby Itno, 28 years;

– Tajikistan’s Emomali Rakhmon, 27 years;

– Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki, 26 years;

– Belarussian Alexander Lukashenko, 25 years;

– Djibouti’s Ismail Omar Guelleh, 20 years;

– Gabon’s Ali Bongo who will have been in power for 20 years in October 2019.

 

https://www.nst.com.my/world/2019/08/508928/worlds-longest-serving-leaders

 

Tags: africaChinaequatorial guineaEthiopian emperor Haile SelassieLibyaNorth Korea’s founder Kim Il SungQueen Elizabeth II
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