Longest ruling presidents and advances of Gadafi of libia

List of longest ruling non-royal leaders
The list of longest ruling non-royal leaders of all time details leaders of countries who ruled for more than 30 consecutive years, and were not royalty, names in bold are still ruling:
No. Name Country Office Tenure Began Tenure Ended Length of Tenure
1. Fidel Castro
Cuba
First Secretary/Prime Minister/President 16 Feb 1959 24 Feb 2008 49 years, 8 days
2. Chiang Kai-shek
Republic of China
Director-General/Premier/President 10 Oct 1928 5 Apr 1975 46 years, 177 days
3. Kim Il-sung
North Korea
General Secretary/Prime Minister/President 9 Sep 1948 8 Jul 1994 45 years, 302 days
4. Omar Bongo
Gabon
President 2 Dec 1967 8 Jun 2009 41 years, 188 days
5. Muammar al-Gaddafi
Libya
Prime Minister/Leader and Guide of the Revolution 1 Sep 1969 Present 41 years, 182 days
6. Enver Hoxha
Albania
First Secretary 22 Oct 1944 11 Apr 1985 40 years, 171 days
7. Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa
Bahrain
Prime Minister 16 Dec 1971 Present 39 years, 76 days
8. Francisco Franco
Spain
Prime Minister/Head of State 1 Oct 1936 20 Nov 1975 39 years, 51 days
9. Gnassingbé Eyadéma
Togo
President 14 Apr 1967 5 Feb 2005 37 years, 297 days
10. Josip Broz Tito
Yugoslavia
Prime Minister/President 29 Nov 1943 4 May 1980 36 years, 157 days
11. António de Oliveira Salazar
Portugal
Prime Minister 5 Jul 1932 25 Sep 1968 36 years, 82 days
12. Todor Zhivkov
Bulgaria
First Secretary/President 4 Mar 1954 17 Nov 1989 35 years, 258 days
13. Paul Biya
Cameroon
Prime Minister/President 30 Jun 1975 Present 35 years, 245 days
14. Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Cote d'Ivoire
Prime Minister/President 1 May 1959 7 Dec 1993 34 years, 220 days
15. Alfredo Stroessner
Paraguay
President 15 Aug 1954 3 Feb 1989 34 years, 172 days
16. Ali Abdullah Saleh
North Yemen/ Yemen
President 18 Jul 1978 Present 32 years, 227 days
17. Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
Mongolia
Prime Minister/Head of State 26 Jan 1952 23 Aug 1984 32 years, 210 days
18. Dawda Jawara
Gambia
Prime Minister/President 12 Jun 1962 22 Jul 1994 32 years, 40 days
19. János Kádár
Hungary
General Secretary/Prime Minister 25 Oct 1956 27 May 1988 31 years, 214 days
20. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Equatorial Guinea
President 3 Aug 1979 Present 31 years, 211 days
21. Habib Bourguiba
Tunisia
Prime Minister/President 11 Apr 1956 7 Nov 1987 31 years, 210 days
22. Lee Kuan Yew
Singapore
Prime Minister 5 Jun 1959 28 Nov 1990 31 years, 176 days
23. José Eduardo dos Santos
Angola
President 10 Sep 1979 Present 31 years, 173 days
24. Mobutu Sese Seko
Zaire
President 24 Nov 1965 16 May 1997 31 years, 173 days
25. Hastings Banda
Malawi
Prime Minister/President 1 Feb 1963 21 May 1994 31 years, 109 days
26. Suharto
Indonesia
President 12 Mar 1967 21 May 1998 31 years, 70 days
27. Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
General Secretary/Prime Minister 3 Apr 1922 5 Mar 1953 30 years, 336 days
28. Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe
Prime Minister/President 18 Apr 1980 Present 30 years, 318 days
29. Abdou Diouf
Senegal
Prime Minister/President 26 Feb 1970 1 Apr 2000 30 years, 35 days
30. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
Maldives
President 11 Nov 1978 11 Nov 2008 30 years, 0 days

Forces loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are moving into rebel territory in the east, taking an oil installation in the town of Brega.
The BBC's John Simpson in the nearby city of Ajdabiya says the 100-vehicle convoy is expected to head towards it, and an arms dump there has been bombed.
The city's defenders are in a high state of excitement and expecting an attack, our correspondent says.
In two weeks of unrest Col Gaddafi has lost control of large parts of Libya.
The violence has led to a major humanitarian crisis on the Tunisian border, with tens of thousands of foreigners, most of them Egyptian, stranded and unable to get home.
The UN says a mass evacuation is needed and thousands of lives are at stake.
Meanwhile in the capital Tripoli, where Col Gaddafi is still in charge, a fuel tanker overturned causing several large explosions.
It is not clear whether the incident was an act of sabotage.
Rebels determined
Our correspondent says Brega was defended by a handful of lightly armed rebels, but Ajdabiya is a more important target.
It has a large arms dump which has been bombed several times by pro-Gaddafi forces.
The loyalists are now only a couple of miles from Ajdabiya, the defenders say.
The rebels are determined to put up a fight but it remains to be seen whether this translates into an organised defence of the city.