World Leaders

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• Who became South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994?
• Angela Merkel served as Germany’s chancellor from 2005 to 2021.
• Which Chinese leader is most closely associated with launching the country’s reform and opening-up policies after 1978?
• Nelson Mandela spent approximately 27 years in prison before becoming South Africa’s president.
• Who was India’s first woman prime minister?
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected president of Ukraine in 2019.
• Which leader served as Singapore’s first prime minister and helped guide its transformation into a major global…
• Golda Meir served as prime minister of Israel.