Long-serving leaders
Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt’s crisis as one of the world’s longest-serving political leaders. Here are five others:
Leader Achieved power
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe 1980
Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Angola 1979
Teodoro Obiang Ngeuma Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea 1979
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen ...
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