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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.
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.
Category listing female national presidents in Africa. In the border regions of the continent there may be instances of transcontinental countries. Subcategories
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in Africa and by dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office.
This list considers only the incumbent head of state or government. Heads of state or government assassinated or executed after they left office (e.g. Aldo Moro , Saddam Hussein and Shinzo Abe ) are excluded.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
She was the second woman to become the president in the African continent, [5] after Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She was also the country's first female vice-president. [7] In June 2014, Forbes named President Banda as the 40th most powerful woman in the world and the most powerful woman in Africa. [8]
Suluhu was sworn in as the 6th President of Tanzania on 19 March 2021, becoming its first female president. [23] Within four months of taking office, she formed a COVID-19 advisory committee and took steps to initiate a vaccination campaign in the country. [24] [25] She was expected to serve out the remainder of Magufuli's five-year term. [26]