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Mengistu Haile Mariam

Last mentioned in Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia

Mengistu Haile Mariam (መንግስቱ ኃይለ ማርያም, pronounced [məngɨstu hajlə marjam]) (born 1937) was the most prominent officer of the Derg, the military junta that governed Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987, and the President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991. He was originally ...

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Jean-Pierre Bemba

Last mentioned in Bossangoa :: Central African Republic

Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo (born 4 November 1962) is a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was one of four vice-presidents in the transitional government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 17 July 2003 to 2006. Bemba also leads the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC)...

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Didymus Mutasa

Last mentioned in Harare :: Zimbabwe

Didymus Noel Edwin Mutasa (born July 27, 1935) is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving as the Minister of State for National Security, Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement in the President's Office and as the Secretary for Administration of ZANU-PF....

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Ian Khama

Last mentioned in Gaborone :: Botswana

Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama (or Ian a Sêrêtsê; born February 27, 1953) is the President of Botswana and the Paramount Chief of the Bamangwato tribe. He is the first born son of Sir Seretse Khama (the country's foremost independence leader who was President from 1966 to 1980) and Lady ...

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Siad Barre

Last mentioned in Mogadishu :: Somalia

Mohamed Siad Barre (Somali: Maxamed Siyaad Barre) (1919 – January 2, 1995) was the Head of State of Somalia from 1969 to 1991. Prior to his presidency he was an army commander under the democratic government of Somalia which had been in place since independence in June 1960. During his rule, he ...

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Joseph Kabila

Last mentioned in Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Joseph Kabila Kabange (born June 4, 1971), known commonly as Joseph Kabila, became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in January 2001, ten days after the murder of his father and DRC president Laurent-Désiré Kabila, a former rebel leader. On November 27, 2006, Joseph Kabila was ...

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François Bozizé

Last mentioned in Bangui :: Central African Republic

François Bozizé Yangouvonda (born October 14, 1946) is the President of the Central African Republic. He came to power in March 2003 after leading a rebellion against President Ange-Félix Patassé and ushered in a transitional period of government. He won the country's 2005 presidential election; he ...

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Richard Williamson

Last mentioned in Khartoum :: Sudan

Richard Nelson Williamson, SSPX (born 8 March 1940) is a bishop of the Society of St. Pius X. He was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church because of his unauthorized consecration by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, deemed by the Holy See to be "illicit" and "a schismatic act"....

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Rodolphe Adada

Last mentioned in Khartoum :: Sudan

Rodolphe Adada (born 28 April 1946 in Gamboma) is a politician in the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) who has served in the government under President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, most recently as Foreign Minister from 1997 to 2007. He is currently Joint Special Representative of the United Nations ...

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