Sub-Saharan Africa Heads of State

Angola	Benin	Botswana	Burkina Faso	Burundi

Jose Eduardo dos Santos	Boni Yayi	Ian Khama	Blaise Compaore	Pierre Nkurunziza
1979	2006	2008	1987	2005

Cameroon	Cape Verde	Central African Republic	Chad	Comoros

Paul Biya	Pedro Pires	Francois Bozize	Idriss Deby	Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
1982	2001	2003	1990	2006

Congo	Cote D'Ivoire	Democratic Republic of Congo	Djibouti	Equatorial Guinea

Denis Sassou Nguesso	Laurent Gbagbo	Joseph Kabila	Ismail Omar Guelleh	Teodoro Obiang
1977	2000	2001	1999	1979

Eritrea	Ethiopia	Gabon	Gambia	Ghana

Isias Afewerki	Meles Zanawi	Omar Bongo	Yahya Jammeh	John Kufuor
1993	1991	1967	1996	2001

Guinea	Guinea Bissau	Kenya	Lesotho	Liberia

Lasana Conte	Joao Viera	Mwai Kibaki	Pakalitha Mosisili	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
1984	1980	2002	1998	2006

Madagascar	Malawi	Mali	Mauritius	Mozambique

Marc Ravalomanana	Bingu wa Mutharika	Amadou Toure	Anerood Jugnauth	Armando Guebuza
2002	2004	2002	2003	2005

Namibia	Niger	Nigeria	Rwanda	Sao Tome & Principe

Hifikepunye Pohamba	Mamadou Tandja	Musa Yar'Adua	Paul Kagame	Fradique de Menezes
2005	1999	2007	2000	2001

Senegal	Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Somalia (Transitional)	South Africa

Abdoulaye Wade	James Michel	Ernest Koroma	Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed	Thabo Mbeki
2000	2006	2007	2004	1999

Sudan	Swaziland	Tanzania	Togo	Uganda

Omar Al-Bashir	Mswati III	Jakaya Kikwete	Faure Gnassingbe	Yoweri Museveni
1993	1986	2005	2005	1980

Zambia	Zimbabwe

Levy Mwanawasa	Robert Mugabe
2002	1980