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Africa

Africa has 54 countries on TermClock. The average current leader has been in office 3,895 days (about 10.7 years). The longest-serving is Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, at 17,255 days. By the Regimes of the World classification, 15 countries count as democracies and 39 as autocracies.

Country	Leader	Political system	Days in office
🇩🇿 Algeria	Abdelmadjid Tebboune · President	Electoral autocracy	2,507
🇦🇴 Angola	João Lourenço · President	Electoral autocracy	3,355
🇧🇯 Benin	Romuald Wadagni · President	Electoral autocracy	159
🇧🇼 Botswana	Duma Boko · Prime Minister	Electoral democracy	728
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	Ibrahim Traoré · President	Closed autocracy	1,485
🇧🇮 Burundi	Évariste Ndayishimiye · President	Electoral autocracy	2,325
🇨🇲 Cameroon	Paul Biya · President	Electoral autocracy	16,064
🇨🇻 Cape Verde	Francisco Carvalho · Prime Minister	Electoral democracy	133
🇨🇫 Central African Republic	Faustin-Archange Touadéra · President	Electoral autocracy	3,866
🇹🇩 Chad	Mahamat Déby · President	Electoral autocracy	2,019
🇰🇲 Comoros	Azali Assoumani · President	Electoral autocracy	3,955
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo	Félix Tshisekedi · President	Electoral autocracy	2,836
🇩🇯 Djibouti	Ismail Omar Guelleh · President	Electoral autocracy	10,037
🇪🇬 Egypt	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi · President	Electoral autocracy	4,527
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea	Teodoro Obiang · President	Electoral autocracy	17,255
🇪🇷 Eritrea	Isaias Afwerki · President	Closed autocracy	12,355
🇸🇿 Eswatini	Mswati III · Monarch	Closed autocracy	14,798
🇪🇹 Ethiopia	Taye Atske Selassie · President	Electoral autocracy	753
🇬🇦 Gabon	Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema · President	Electoral autocracy	1,157
🇬🇭 Ghana	John Mahama · President	Electoral democracy	661
🇬🇳 Guinea	Mamadi Doumbouya · President	Closed autocracy	1,855
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau	Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo · President	Closed autocracy	5,285
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast	Alassane Ouattara · President	Electoral autocracy	5,809
🇰🇪 Kenya	William Ruto · President	Electoral democracy	1,508
🇱🇸 Lesotho	Letsie III of Lesotho · Monarch	Electoral democracy	11,223
🇱🇷 Liberia	Joseph Boakai · President	Electoral democracy	1,033
🇱🇾 Libya	Mohamed al-Menfi · President	Closed autocracy	2,055
🇲🇬 Madagascar	Michael Randrianirina · President	Closed autocracy	381
🇲🇼 Malawi	Peter Mutharika · President	Electoral democracy	391
🇲🇱 Mali	Assimi Goïta · President	Closed autocracy	1,985
🇲🇷 Mauritania	Mohamed Ould Ghazouani · President	Electoral autocracy	2,647
🇲🇺 Mauritius	Pravind Jugnauth · Prime Minister	Electoral democracy	3,567
🇲🇦 Morocco	Mohammed VI of Morocco · Monarch	Closed autocracy	9,961
🇲🇿 Mozambique	Daniel Chapo · President	Electoral autocracy	653
🇳🇦 Namibia	Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · President	Electoral democracy	588
🇳🇪 Niger	Abdourahamane Tiani · President	Closed autocracy	1,190
🇳🇬 Nigeria	Bola Tinubu · President	Electoral democracy	1,250
🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo	Anatole Collinet Makosso · Prime Minister	Electoral autocracy	1,997
🇷🇼 Rwanda	Paul Kagame · President	Electoral autocracy	9,716
🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe	Carlos Vila Nova · President	Electoral democracy	1,854
🇸🇳 Senegal	Bassirou Diomaye Faye · President	Electoral democracy	941
🇸🇨 Seychelles	Patrick Herminie · President	Liberal democracy	369
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone	Julius Maada Bio · President	Electoral autocracy	3,131
🇸🇴 Somalia	Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · President	Closed autocracy	1,629
🇿🇦 South Africa	Cyril Ramaphosa · President	Electoral democracy	3,179
🇸🇸 South Sudan	Salva Kiir Mayardit · President	Closed autocracy	5,592
🇸🇩 Sudan	Abdel Fattah al-Burhan · President	Closed autocracy	2,758
🇹🇿 Tanzania	Samia Suluhu Hassan · President	Electoral autocracy	2,051
🇬🇲 The Gambia	Adama Barrow · President	Electoral democracy	3,569
🇹🇬 Togo	Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové · President	Electoral autocracy	545
🇹🇳 Tunisia	Sarra Zaafrani · Prime Minister	Electoral autocracy	588
🇺🇬 Uganda	Yoweri Museveni · President	Electoral autocracy	14,884
🇿🇲 Zambia	Hakainde Hichilema · President	Electoral autocracy	1,893
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe	Emmerson Mnangagwa · President	Electoral autocracy	3,262

Regime classifications follow the Regimes of the World scheme (V-Dem), via Our World in Data.