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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Bashar al - Assad

Bashar Hafez al - Assad is the President of Syria. He was born on 11 September 1965. He has served as president since 2000, when he succeeded his father, Hafez al - Assad, who led Syria for 30 years until his death.

President Bashar al - Assad graduated from the the medical school of Damascus University in 1988, and started to work as a physician in the army. Four years later, he attended postgraduate studies at the Western Eye Hospital, in London, specializing in Ophthalmology. In 1994 after his elder brother Bassel was killed in a car crash, Bashar was recalled to Syria to take over Bassel's role as heir apparent.

In December 2000, Bashar al - Assad married Asma Akhras popularly known as Asma al - Assad, a British citizen of Syrian origin, fro Acton, London. The couple has 3 children, Hafez (named after his grandfather Hafez al - Assad, born 3 December, 2001), Zein (born on 5 November 2003) and Karim (born on 16 December 2004).

President Bashar al - Assad

President Bashar al - Assad and his wife First Lady Asma Assad

President Bashar al - Assad celebrating the second birthday of one of their children with wife Asma Assad

President Bashar al - Assad with his wife Asma Assad and children

President Bashar al - Assad and his son

President Bashar al - Assad's children

President Bashar Assad with his wife Asma Assad and their child

President Bashar al - Assad with his family

President Bashar Assad with his wife Asma Assad and their children

President Bashar Assad and his daughter

President Bashar al - Assad with his family

President Bashar Assad with his wife Asma Assad and their children

President Bashar al - Assad at a children's party

President Bashar al - Assad Interviews

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the 24th and current president of Liberia. She is the first female elected head of State in Africa. She was born on 29 October 1938 in Liberia. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attended College of West Africa in Monrovia, Liberia; University of Colorado at Boulds, Havard University and Madison Business College. She married James Sirleaf when she was 17 years old and then traveled with him to the United States in 1961 to continue her studies and earned an accounting degree. She was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakel Karman of Yemen.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the mother of four sons and has grandchildren.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and US President, Barack Obama

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with Tawakel Karman (left) and Leymah Gbowee (center) display their awards during the presentation of the Nobel Peace Price in 2011.

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Joyce Banda

Joyce Hilda Banda is a Malawian politician and the 4th President of Malawi. She has been the president of Malawi since 7 April 2012. She is the founder and leader of the People's Party, created in 2011. President Joyce Banda was born on 12 April 1950. Her father was an accomplished and popular police brass band musician.

She was Minister of foreign affairs from 2006 and 2009 and Vice President of Malawi from May 2009 to April 2012. She took office as president following the sudden death of President Bingu wa Mutharika. Forbes named President Joyce Banda as the 71st most powerful woman in the world and the most powerful woman in Africa.

President Joyce Banda has a Cambridge School Certificate, a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Early Childhood Education from Columbus University, a Bachelor of Social Studies in Gender Studies from the Atlantic International University USA and a Diploma in Management of NGOs from the International Labour Organization (ILO) Centre in Turin, Italy. She received an honorary doctorate in 2013 from Jeonju University.

President Joyce Banda married Roy Kachele with whom she had three children. Her marriage to Roy Kachele ended in 1981. She is now married to Richard Banda, a retired Chief Justice of the Republic of Malawi with whom she has two children.

President Joyce Banda

President Joyce Banda and President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe

President Joyce Banda and President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Macky Sall

Macky Sall is a Senegalese politician who has been president of Senegal since April 2012. He was Prime Minister of Senegal under President Abdoulaye Wade from April 2004 to June 2007.

President Macky Sall is a geological engineer by profession. He was born in Fatick Senegal on 11 December, 1961. He is married to Marieme Faye.

President Macky Sall

President Macky Sall and his wife First Lady Marieme Faye Sall

Left to right: First Lady Marieme Faye Sall, US President Barack Obama, US First Lady Michelle Obama, and

President Macky Sall of Senegal

President Macky Sall (left) and his wife Marieme Faye Sall (second left) with the Obamas

President Macky Sall (left) with Hillary Rodham Clinton

Former US First Lady from 1993 to 2001 and Secretary of the State from 2009 to 2013

President Macky Sall (left) with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Michael Sata

Michael Chilufya Sata is a Zambian politician who is the fifth and current president of Zambia. He was elected president of Zambia on 23 September 2011. Sata leads the Patriotic Front (PF), a major political party in Zambia.

Michael Chilufya Sata was born in 1937 in Mpika, Northern Province, Zambia. He worked as a police officer, railway man, and trade unionist before entering politics in 1963. He spent time in London working on the railway sweeping the platforms. He was also a porter at Victoria railway station.

President Sata is married to Dr. Christine Kaseba Sata and he has 8 children.