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Parliamentary Secretary to the President – Jean M. Mlanga – 1966 [120] Minister of State for Women's and Children’s Affairs – Edda E. Chitalo – 1994 [120] Foreign minister – Lilian Patel – 2000 [83] Interior minister – Anna Kachikho – 2005 [121] Vice President – Joyce Banda – 2009 [122] President – Joyce Banda – 2012 [123]
Category listing female national presidents in Africa. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Subcategories
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
She is scheduled to be Namibia's fifth president and the first woman to hold this position. [4] She is serving as the third vice-president of Namibia since February 2024. She was also SWAPO 's first female presidential candidate for the 2024 Namibian general election. In 2017, Nandi-Ndaitwah was elected vice-president of SWAPO, the first woman ...
Category listing the first female national presidents in Africa. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Pages in category "First women presidents in Africa"
Upon her swearing-in, Suluhu became Tanzania's first female president [6] and the second Zanzibari to hold the post, [18] after Ali Hassan Mwinyi. She became one of only two serving female heads of state in Africa at the time she was sworn in, alongside Ethiopia's Sahle-Work Zewde, who held only a ceremonial role. [13]
The President of the United Republic of Tanzania (Swahili: Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) is the head of state and head of government [2] of Tanzania. Samia Suluhu Hassan , sworn in on 19 March 2021, is the first female president of the United Republic of Tanzania.
She currently serves as the Chancellor of the Women's University in Africa. [5] In the December 2020 Ghanaian presidential election, she was selected by John Mahama as his running mate on the NDC party ticket. [6] [7] [8] She was selected again as running mate to Mahama in 2024 and won, becoming the first female vice president-elect of Ghana.