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There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
Horn of Africa: Hassan Sheikh Mohamud: President of Somalia: 9 June 2022 Hamza Abdi Barre: Prime Minister of Somalia: 25 June 2022 Sudan: Northeast Africa: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan: Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council: 11 November 2021 Osman Hussein: Prime Minister of Sudan: 19 January 2022 Syria: Levant: Ahmed al-Sharaa ...
This is a list of totalitarian regimes. There are regimes that have been commonly referred to as "totalitarian", or the concept of totalitarianism has been applied to them, for which there is wide consensus among scholars to be called as such; if there is no consensus, it is mentioned in the list.
The plotters ousted President Makarios III and replaced him with pro-Enosis (Greek irridentist) nationalist Nikos Sampson as dictator. The Sampson regime was described as a puppet state, whose ultimate aim was the annexation of the island by Greece [92] [93] Dương Văn Minh South Vietnam: President North Vietnam: 30 April 1975 Fall of Saigon
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea is Africa's longest serving dictator. [10] [11] Past that time, however, the term dictator assumed an invariably negative connotation. In popular usage, a dictatorship is often associated with brutality and oppression. As a result, it is often also used as a term of abuse against political ...
English short, formal names, and ISO Status Domestic short name(s) and formal name(s) Capital Population Area Currency Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic [n 6] Claimed by Morocco as its southernmost provinces Recognized by the African Union and 46 UN members and South Ossetia as the representative government of Western Sahara
Name Countries Official position Later imprisonment Reason Muhammad VIII al-Amin Tunisia: Bey of Tunis (1943–1956) & King of Tunisia (1956–1957) 1957: Overthrown [1] Patrice Lumumba Democratic Republic of the Congo: Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1960) 1961: Overthrown (Executed by firing squad) [2] Ahmed Ben Bella Algeria
For a list of heads of state taking dates of independence into account, see List of heads of state by diplomatic precedence. Acting presidents are included in this list, but if a leader has non-consecutive terms, only the current period of service is listed. States where head of state differs from head of government are mainly parliamentary ...