Algeria
Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA
Republic

Benin
Thomas YAYI Boni
Republic

Burkina Faso
Blaise COMPAORE
Parliamentary Republic

Cape Verde
Pedro Verona PIRES
Republic

Chad
Idriss DEBY Itno
Republic

Cote D'Ivoire
Laurent GBAGBO
republic; multiparty presidential regime established 1960

Egypt
Mohamed Hosni MUBARAK
Republic

Gambia
Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH
Republic

Ghana
John Evans Atta MILLS
Constitutional Democracy

Guinea-Bissau
Raimundo PEREIRA
Republic

Guinea
Moussa Dadis CAMARA
Republic

Liberia
Ellen JOHNSON SIRLEAF
Republic

Libya
Muammar Abu Minyar al-QADHAFI
Jamahiriya (a state of the masses) in theory, governed by the populace through local councils; in practice, an authoritarian state

Mali
Amadou Toumani TOURE
Republic

Mauritania
Mohamed Ould Abdel AZIZ
Military Junta

Morocco
King MOHAMMED VI
Constitutional Monarchy

Niger
Mamadou TANDJA
Republic

Nigeria
Umaru Musa YAR'ADUA
Federal Republic

Senegal
Abdoulaye WADE
Republic

Sierra Leone
Ernest Bai KOROMA
Constitutional Democracy

Togo
Faure GNASSINGBE
republic under transition to multiparty democratic rule

Tunisia
President Zine el Abidine BEN ALI
Republic