Mugabe, Second-Longest Serving African Head, Risks Ouster: Chart

(Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who at age 93 is the world’s oldest-serving leader, risks being forced from office after the military seized control of the southern African nation. Mugabe’s tenure as president spans 37 consecutive years, the second-longest after Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who took power eight months before him.

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