1. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo,
Equatorial Guinea, 33 years, 3 months
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has been
ruling the tiny, oil-rich West African nation
since overthrowing his uncle Marcias
in August, 1979, in a bloody palace coup.
And While Equatorial Guinea has one of the
world’s highest per capita incomes, it ranks
quite poorly on the U.N. Human Development
Index with the majority of the population
lacking basic necessities like clean drinking
water.
2. Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola, 33
years, 2 months
Seizing power after the natural death of his
predecessor, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos lags
just one month behind Obiang, and he
comes with an equally unsavory human
rights record. According the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID), for
instance, Angola is sub-Saharan Africa’s
second-largest oil producer and the
seventh-largest supplier to the U.S.. The
country is also the world’s fourth-largest
producer of rough diamonds. Yet despite
these plentiful resources, the people of
Angola not directly related to the president
remain desperately poor with 68 percent of
the population living below the poverty line
and life expectancy topping out at 41 years
3. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe,
33 years, 7 months
Mugabe has been running Zimbabwe since
the country gained independence in 1980 –
first as prime minister and then from 1987
as president. Despite his age -nearly 90 –
Mugabe has vowed he will not step down
from his post.
4. Paul Biya, Cameroon, 31 years
Cameroon’s president took over from
President Ahmadou Ahidjo in November
1982 and has been in power of the oil-rich
nation in Central Africa ever since.
5. Denis Sassou Nguesso, Republic of the
Congo, 29 years, 9 months
If he hadn’t lost control of the Congo for five
years in 1992, Sassou Nguesso would be at
the very top of this list. He first seized power
of the country in a February 1979 coup, but
lost the country’s first multi-party elections
in 1992. After a 1997 civil war, however, he
was back in control and was re-elected in
2004 for another seven-year term.
6. King Mswati III, Swaziland, 28 years, 7
months
Sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch
has been ruling his landlocked country since
he was crowed in April 1986 at the age of
18 – a. At the time he was the world’s
youngest ruling monarch.
Presidents Kenyatta (Kenya), Museveni (Uganda) and-Kagame (Rwanda)
7. Yoweri Museveni, Uganda, 27 years, 11
months
Yoweri Museveni seized Kampala in January
1986 following a five-year guerrilla war and
declared himself Uganda’s president. Shortly
after taking power he banned multiparty
politics, although he re-introduced the
system again in 1996. Not that it particularly
mattered, as Museveni won a fourth term in
office in 2011 despite third-time opponent
Kizza Besigye’s cries of foul play.
8. Blaise Compaoré, Burkina
Faso, 26 years, 1 month
Blaise Campaore has been running Burkina
Faso since deposing predecessor Thomas
Sankara in an October 1987 coup. Since
then he has been winning “landslide
victories” (contested by the opposition) in
the presidential polls – taking 80 percent of
the vote in 2010. And although a law in
Burkino Faso was passed in 2005
prohibiting presidents from serving more
than two terms, Campoare doesn’t have to
abide by it as his country’s constitutional
court ruled it could not be applied
retroactively.
9. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan, 24 years, 5
months
In June 1989, Al-Bashir overthrew the
democratically elected civilian government
and appointed himself president in a
bloodless coup. Since he took office his
country has been in a state of civil war with
more than 1 million reported dead. In March
2009, the International Criminal Court in the
Hague issued an arrest warrant for Al-Bashir
– a first for a sitting head of state – for
instigating crimes against humanity.
chad
10. Idriss Déby Itno, Chad, 22
years 11 months
Déby seized control of Chad during a
rebellion against then-President Hissène
Habré in December 1990 and has since
managed to survive a number of attempts to
overthrow him source:http://africanleadership.co.uk/africas-10-longest-tenured-dictators/

Greed!!!!

Dictatorship!!!

these are the type of men that would have search for the elixir of life if it wasn't a myth.

[size=20pt]Greedy Bastards[/size]

BTW, how come only Ghadaffi was assassinated by the west?