Pierre Nkurunziza

Pierre Nkurunziza is a  Burundian politician who has been President of Burundi since 26 August 2005. He was born on 18 December I963 in Bujumbura, capital city of Burundi. He was raised in the province of Ngozi in northern Burundi. His father was Hutu and his mother was Tutsi. He graduated from the University of Burundi in Bujumbura in 1990 with a dagree in Physical education.

His father Eustache Ngabisha was elected to the Parliament of Burundi in 1965 and later became governor of two provinces before being killed in 1972 during a period of ethnic violence that claimed the lives of over 400,000 Burundians and caused many more to go into exile as refugees.

Nkurunziza was a lecturer at Burundi University when civil war broke out in the country following the assassination of Burundi's first ethnic Hutu democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, in 1993. 

He joined the CNDD - FDD in 1995 as a soldier after the Tutsi army attacked the university campus and killed 200 students.

He was the chairman of the National council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD - FDD) the ruling party until he was elected the President of the Republic of Burundi.

Pierre Nkurunziza was one of seven siblings. Two of his siblings were killed after civil war erupted in 1993, and three others died while fighting in the CNDD - FDD. Only one of his siblings, a sister, is alive today.

Pierre Nkurunziza married his wife Denise Bucumi in 1994 and they have 3 children, Dorcas, Nquomie and Johnathan.

President Pierre Nkurunziza

President Pierre Nkurunziza and his wife First Lady Denise Bucumi Nkurunziza

President Pierre Nkurunziza and his wife First Lady Denise Bucumi and their three children, Dorcas, Nquomie and Johnathan with President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta (right)

President Pierre Nkurunziza (left) and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (right)

President Pierre Nkurunziza and his wife First Lady Denise Bucumi Nkurunziza with President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta and First Lady of Kenya Margaret Kenyatta

President Pierre Nkurunziza and his wife First Lady Denise Bucumi Nkurunziza with the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh 

President Pierre Nkurunziza and President of Rwanda Paul Kagame

Hifikepunye Pohamba

Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba is a Namibian politician who has been president of Namibia since March 2005. He has also been the Preside t of SWAPO, the ruling party since November 2007. He was born on August 18, 1935.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba is married to Penehupifo Pohamba and they have 3 children, Tulongeni, Kaupu and Ndapandula.

Prior to his Presidency, he served in various ministerial positions, beginning at Namibia's independence in 1990. He was Minister of Hoe Affairs from 1990 to 1995, Minister of Fisheries from 1995 to 1997, Minister without portfolio fro 1997 to 2000 and Minister of Lands from 2001 to 2005. He was also Secretary - General of SWAPO from 1997 to 2002 and Vice - President of SWAPO from 2002 to 2007.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba

President Hifikepunye Pohamba

President Hifikepunye Pohamba

President Hifikepunye Pohamba and his wife Penehupifo Pohamba

President Hifikepunye Pohamba and Former US President George W Bush

President Hifikepunye Pohamba (right) with wife of the Late Julius K. Nyerere (Former and First President of Tanzania) Maria Nyerere.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba (left) with the Former President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda (right)

President Hifikepunye Pohamba Interviews

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

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

President Bashar al - Assad and his wife First Lady Asma 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 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 Assad with his wife Asma Assad and their children

President Bashar al - Assad at a children's party

President Bashar al - Assad Interviews

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

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and US President, Barack Obama

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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.