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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 Field Marshal Idi Amin Amin shortly before addressing the United Nations General Assembly in 1975 3rd President of Uganda In office 25 January 1971 – 11 April 1979 Vice President Mustafa Adrisi Preceded by Milton Obote Succeeded by Yusuf Lule ...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa ([ʒɑ̃ bedɛl bɔkasa] ⓘ; 22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996) was a Central African politician and military officer who served as the second president of the Central African Republic (CAR), after seizing power in the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état on 1 January 1966.
There, African nationalists opposed to Nkomo's leadership had established a new party, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), in August; Ndabaningi Sithole became the group's president, while appointing Mugabe to be the group's secretary-general in absentia. [76]
Bokassa, who had already ruled the Central African Republic (CAR) as a military dictator since taking power in the 1966 coup d'état, was officially crowned on 4 December 1977 in a lavish ceremony that was estimated to cost the Central African Empire US$20 million (equivalent to $101 million in 2023).
Before the adoption of the 2023 constitution, [4] there was a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of the Central African Republic. The term limit was not met by any president. [ 5 ] The constitution of 2023 removed term-limits and extended the presidential term from five years to seven years.
Obiang with other African leaders and US President Joe Biden at the United States–Africa Leaders Summit in December 2022. In a lengthy state visit from March to April 2006, President Obiang sought to reopen the closed embassy in the US, saying that "the lack of a U.S. diplomatic presence is definitely holding back economic growth."
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga [a] (/ m ə ˈ b uː t uː ˈ s ɛ s eɪ ˈ s ɛ k oʊ / ⓘ mə-BOO-too SESS-ay SEK-oh; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997), often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997.
When President François Mitterrand visited Burkina Faso in November 1986, Sankara criticized the French for having received Pieter Botha, the Prime Minister of South Africa, which still enforced apartheid; and Jonas Savimbi, the leader of UNITA, in France, referring to both men as 'covered in blood from head to toe'. In response, France ...