Top 12 Highest Paid African Presidents 2017 and their Age: List

8) Alassane Ouattara(Age 75), President of Ivory Coast ($100,000 per year)

Born 1 January 1942) is a Ivorian politician who has been President of Côte d’Ivoire since 2010. An economist by profession, Ouattara worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Central Bank of West African States , and he was the Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993, appointed to that post by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Ouattara became the President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an Ivorian political party, in 1999.

7) Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj (Age 56–57), Incumbent prime minister of Libya ($105,000 per year)

Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj (born 1960) is the Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya and prime minister of the Government of National Accord of Libya that was formed as a result of the Libyan Political Agreement signed on 17 December 2015. He has been a member of the Parliament of Tripoli.

6) Hage Gottfried Geingob (Age 75), Namibia, $110 000 per annum

(born 3 August 1941) is the third and the current President of Namibia, in office since 21 March 2015. Geingob was the first Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 1990 to 28 August 2002, and he served as Prime Minister again from 4 December 2012 to 21 March 2015. Between 2008 and 2012 Geingob served as Minister of Trade and Industry. He was Vice-President of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) between 2007 and 2015 and became President in 2015 when his predecessor, Hifikepunye Pohamba, stepped down.

In November 2014, Geingob was elected as President of Namibia by an overwhelming margin.

5) Denis Sassou Nguesso (Age 73). Republic of Congo $110 000 per annum

Nguesso has been the president of the Republic of the Congo since 1997; he was previously President from 1979 to 1992. He was marked for prominence and received military training in Algeria and at Saint Maixent, France before returning to join Congo’s elite paratroop regiment.