HII NDIO LIST YA WATU 11 MAARUFU WANAOCHUKIWA NA BAADHI YA MATAIFA DUNIANI,

 Bashar al-Assad is the president of Syria and regional secretary of the Ba'ath Party. Al-Assad was elected in 2000 and re-elected unopposed in 2007.

 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran and the figurative head of the Muslim conservative establishment in Iran. 

 Omar Hassan al-Bashir is the current president of Sudan. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi.

 The Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro held the position of prime minister from 1959 to 1976, and then president from 1976 to 2008. 

 Hugo Chavez is the president of Venezuela and has held the position since 1999.

 Islam Karimov is the first president of Uzbekistan, serving since 1990.In 1995, Karimov extended his term till 2000 through a widely criticised referendum.Uzbekistan hosted an 800-strong United States troop presence at the Karshi-Khanabad base, also known as "K2", which supported US-led efforts in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. This move was criticised by Human Rights Watch which said the US government subordinated the promotion of human rights to assistance in the war in Afghanistan.

 Alexander Lukashenko has been serving as the president of Belarus since July 20, 1994. American political leaders increasingly began to refer to Belarus as "Europe's last dictatorship"

 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has been the president of Equatorial Guinea since 1979. Obiang overthrew his uncle on August 3, 1979, in a bloody coup d'etat.

 President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is one of Africa's authoritarian leaders. Mugabe's policies have progressively evoked denunciation from both domestic and the international community.

Vladimir Putin is the present prime minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. 

The first president of of the Republic of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh is also the longest-serving president of Yemen, ruling since 1978