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From Johannesburg, a survey of Africa’s aging leadership contrasts a youthful continent with leaders in their eighties and nineties clinging to power. Cameroon’s 92-year-old Paul Biya seeks an eighth term as conflict and corruption persist, while Malawi returned 85-year-old Peter Mutharika amid economic frustration. Ivory Coast’s Alassane Ouattara pursues a fourth term after constitutional changes and renewed protests. Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang and Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa remain entrenched. Yet Gen Z protests across several countries and rising figures like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré and Uganda’s Bobi Wine signal mounting pushback.

Prepared by Lauren Mitchell and reviewed by editorial team.