Long-serving leaders
Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt’s crisis as one of the world’s longest-serving political leaders. Here are five others:
Leader Achieved power
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe 1980
Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Angola 1979
Teodoro Obiang Ngeuma Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea 1979
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen 1978
Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libya 1969
Trees ain’t free
The government has aroused protest for its proposal to sell off Forestry Commission land, with implications for public access. The sale is expected to raise £230 million over ten years. This sum is dwarfed by the subsidies going to owners of private woodlands.The
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