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Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is a Somali politician who is serving as president of Somalia since 2022, his presidency being disputed since 2026. He previously held the office from 2012 to 2017.
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Charles III. Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.
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Azali Assoumani. Azali Assoumani is a Comorian politician and military officer who has served as the seventh President of the Comoros from 2002 to 2006 and again since 2016, except for a brief period in 2019. He became head of state after staging a coup d'??tat in 1999 and was elected president in 2002, 2016, 2019 and 2024. He also served as Chairperson of the African Union from February 2023 to February 2024. Assoumani's current presidency has been described as increasingly authoritarian.
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Mswati III. Mswati III is the Ngwenyama (King) of Eswatini and head of the Swazi royal family since 1986. He is the head of an absolute monarchy, holding executive authority over all branches of government and constitutionally immune from prosecution. Along with his mother Queen Ntfombi, Mswati is the last remaining absolute monarch in Africa and one of twelve remaining absolute monarchs worldwide.
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Mamady Doumbouya. General Mamady Doumbouya is a Guinean general serving as the current fifth president of Guinea since 1 October 2021. He maintained his position after he won the 2025 Guinean presidential election in a landslide victory. Doumbouya led a coup d'??tat on 5 September 2021 that overthrew the previous president, Alpha Cond??.
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Joseph Boakai. Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. is a Liberian politician who has served as the 26th president of Liberia since 2024. He previously served as the 29th vice president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018, under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and as the minister of agriculture from 1983 to 1985. Boakai ran for president in 2017, losing the election to George Weah. He went on to defeat Weah in the 2023 election.
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Jos?? Mar??a Balc??zar. Jos?? Mar??a Balc??zar Zelada is a Peruvian politician and lawyer who has been the president of Peru since 2026. First elected to Congress of Peru as a member of the Free Peru party in 2021, he resigned his membership in 2022 and helped found Bicentennial Peru, a parliamentary bloc of dissident Free Peru congresspeople. He returned to the Free Peru caucus in 2024 but remains as an independent, after Bicentennial Peru's dissolution. He was briefly a member of Alfonso L??pez Chau's party, Now Nation, until he was expelled in early 2026.
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Faustin-Archange Touad??ra. Faustin-Archange Touad??ra is a Central African politician and mathematician who has been president of the Central African Republic since March 2016, and was previously its prime minister from 2008 to 2013. He was elected to the presidency at the 2015???16 general election, in a second round of voting against former prime minister Anicet Georges Dologu??l??. He was re-elected for a second term at the 2020???21 election and a third term at the 2025 Central African election, both of which took place amid low voter turnout and political violence.
ppl_schema_PersonCentral African Rep.
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F??lix Moloua. F??lix Moloua is a Central African politician and mathematician who has served as the prime minister of the Central African Republic since 7 February 2022. He was the previous minister of planning, economy and cooperation of the Central African Republic. Moloua has a background as a mathematician, physicist and demographer.
ppl_schema_PersonCentral African Rep.
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Abdourahamane Tchiani. Abdourahamane Tchiani is a Nigerien military officer and politician who has served as president of Niger since 2025. The Chief of the Nigerien Presidential Guard since 2011, he overthrew president Mohamed Bazoum in 2023, becoming the leader of a junta. He was inaugurated as president of Niger two years later.
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Edgar Lungu. Edgar Chagwa Lungu was a Zambian politician who served as the sixth president of Zambia from 26 January 2015 to 24 August 2021.
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Ulisses Correia e Silva. Jos?? Ulisses de Pina Correia e Silva is a Cape Verdean businessman and politician who has been Prime Minister of Cape Verde since 22 April 2016.
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Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, also known mononymously as Diomaye, is a Senegalese politician and former tax official who is serving as the fifth and current president of Senegal since 2024. He was previously the general secretary of PASTEF, and won the 2024 Senegalese presidential election in place of disqualified candidate Ousmane Sonko, whom he later appointed as prime minister.
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Rui Duarte de Barros. Rui Duarte de Barros is a Bissau-Guinean economist and politician who has served as the prime minister of Guinea-Bissau from 17 January 2024 to 7 August 2025. His previous positions include being the Minister of Economy and Finance, as well as being the acting prime minister from 16 May 2012 to 3 July 2014 following a military coup.
ppl_schema_PersonGuinea Bissau
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Fran??ois Boziz??. Fran??ois Boziz?? Yangouvonda is a Central African politician who was President of the Central African Republic from 2003 to 2013. He was the only Central African president born in modern-day Gabon.
ppl_schema_PersonCentral African Rep.
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Joseph Ngute. Joseph Dion Ngute is a Cameroonian jurist and politician, serving as the 9th prime minister of Cameroon, following his appointment in January 2019. He succeeded Phil??mon Yang, who held the post since 2009.
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Jos?? Maria Neves. Jos?? Maria Pereira Neves is a Cape Verdean politician who is currently the president of Cape Verde, having previously served as the Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 2001 to 2016. He is a member of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV). In the 2021 presidential election, he was elected with 51.7% of votes, beating his nearest rival Carlos Veiga who got 42.4% of the total votes.
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Gervais Ndirakobuca. Gervais Ndirakobuca is a Burundian politician, retired police lieutenant general and former rebel commander serving as the President of the Senate of Burundi since 5 August 2025. Prior to that, he was the Prime Minister of Burundi from 7 September 2022 until 5 August 2025. And prior to that, he was the Minister of Interior, Public Security, and Community Development. He is known for his violent crackdown of the 2015 civil protest in Burundi and was under United States and European Union sanctions for human rights violations when President ??variste Ndayishimiye appointed him security minister.
ppl_schema_PersonBurundi
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??variste Ndayishimiye. ??variste Ndayishimiye is a Burundian general and politician who has served as the tenth President of Burundi since 18 June 2020 and as the Chairperson of the African Union since February 2026. He became involved in the rebel National Council for the Defense of Democracy ??? Forces for the Defense of Democracy during the Burundian Civil War and rose up the ranks of its militia. At the end of the conflict, he entered the Burundian Army and held a number of political offices under the auspices of President Pierre Nkurunziza. Nkurunziza endorsed Ndayishimiye as his successor ahead of the 2020 elections which he won with a large majority.
ppl_schema_PersonBurundi
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Paul Biya. Paul Barth??lemy Biya is a Cameroonian politician who has been serving as the second president of Cameroon since 1982. He was previously the fifth prime minister under President Ahmadou Ahidjo from 1975 to 1982. Widely considered to be a dictator, Biya is the second-longest-ruling president in Africa and the longest consecutively serving current non-royal national leader in the world; at the age of 93, he is also the oldest current head of state in the world.
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Ibrahim Traor??. Ibrahim Traor?? is a Burkinab?? military officer and politician who has held power as the interim president of Burkina Faso since the overthrow of his predecessor in a 2022 coup. Ideologically prominent for his nationalist, pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist, and anti-Western views, Traor?? is the second leader of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration, the ruling military junta in Burkina Faso since September 2022 and the second president of the Alliance of Sahel States since 2025.
ppl_schema_PersonBurkina Faso
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Apollinaire Joachim Ky??lem de Tamb??la. Apollinaire Joachim Ky??lem de Tamb??la is a Burkinabe lawyer, pan-Africanist, writer and statesman, who served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from October 2022 until his firing by President Ibrahim Traor?? in December 2024.
ppl_schema_PersonBurkina Faso
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David Sengeh. David Moinina Sengeh is a Sierra Leonean politician who has served as the chief minister of Sierra Leone after being appointed by President Julius Maada Bio in 2023. He previously served as the minister of basic and senior secondary education and chief innovation officer for the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation. He is a TED Senior Fellow.
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Duma Boko. Duma Gideon Boko is a Motswana politician and lawyer who is currently serving as the sixth President of Botswana since 1 November 2024 and as President of the Umbrella for Democratic Change since 2012. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 2014 to 2019.
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