African politicians assassinated in the 2010s

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 during the First Libyan Civil War. He came to power through a bloodless military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, Secretary General of the General People's Congress from 1977 to 1979, and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1979 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.

Officer and National Security Advisor for Libya (1974-2011)

Libyan militarry officer (1944-2011)

Tunisian politician (1964–2013)

Tunisian politician

Somali singer-songwriter and politician (died. 2014)

Burundian politician

Ethiopian politician

Burundian politician and journalist

Libyan politician

Guinean politician (1954 – 2012)

Somali politician

Rwandan politician (1949-2010)

Nigerian politician

Somali politician