5. Omar al-Bashir (Sudan) – in power for 27 years
The military leader of Sudan has presided over ethnic cleansing, the separation of South Sudan from Sudan and is currently walking with an ICC arrest warrant hanging over his head. He took over the running of the country in June 1987 through a military coup. At 73 years, he seem not to be in a hurry to leave.
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, born 1 January 1944 is a Sudanese politician, the seventh president of Sudan and head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when, as a brigadier in the Sudanese Army, he led a group of officers in a military coup that ousted the democratically elected government of prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi after it began negotiations with rebels in the south. Since then, he has been elected three times as President in elections that have been under scrutiny for corruption. In March 2009, al-Bashir became the first sitting president to be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), for allegedly directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur.