AFRICAN COUNTRIES

ALGERIA BURKINA FASO

LEADER : President Abdelaziz Bouteflika LEADER : Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia
GOVERNMENT : Unitary Semi-Presidential Republic
GOVERNMENT : Unitary Semi-Presidential People's CAPITAL : Ouagadougou
Republic LANGUAGE : French, Moore, Fulani, Dioula
CAPITAL : Algiers CURRENCY : West African CFA franc
LANGUAGE : Arabic, Berber
CURRENCY : Dinar

ANGOLA BURUNDI
LEADER : Pres. João Manuel Gonçalves LEADER : Pierre Nkurunziza
Lourenço
GOVERNMENT : Presidential Republic
GOVERNMENT : Unitary Dominant-party CAPITAL : Bujumbura
Presidential Constitutional Republic LANGUAGE : French, Kirundi
CAPITAL : Luanda CURRENCY : Burundian franc
LANGUAGE : Portuguese
CURRENCY : Kwanza

BENIN CABO VERDE

LEADER : Patrice Talon and Adrien LEADER : Jorge Carlos Fonseca
Houngbedji
GOVERNMENT : Unitary Semi-Presidential Republic
GOVERNMENT : Presidential Republic CAPITAL : Praia
CAPITAL : Porto-Novo LANGUAGE : Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole
LANGUAGE : Fon Yoruba CURRENCY : Cape Verdean escudo
CURRENCY : West African CFA franc

BOTSWANA CAMEROON
LEADER : Pres. Ian Kharma LEADER : Paul Biya

GOVERNMENT : Parliamentary Republic GOVERNMENT : Unitary dominant-party presidential

CAPITAL : Gaborone republic
LANGUAGE : English CAPITAL : Yaoundé
CURRENCY : Botswana Pula LANGUAGE : French, English
CURRENCY : Central African CFA franc
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REPUBLIC (CAR) COTE D'IVOIRE
LEADER : Alassane Ouattara
LEADER : Faustin-Archange Touadéra
GOVERNMENT : Unitary presidential republic under
GOVERNMENT : Semi-presidential republic a parliamentary system
CAPITAL : Bangui CAPITAL : Yamoussoukro (political)
LANGUAGE : French, Sango Abidjan (economic)
CURRENCY : Central African CFA franc (XAF) LANGUAGE : French
CURRENCY : West African CFA franc (XOF)

CHAD
DJIBOUTI
LEADER : Idriss Déby

GOVERNMENT : Unitary Dominant-party LEADER : Ismaïl Omar Guelleh

presidential republic
GOVERNMENT : Unitary dominant-party presidential
CAPITAL : N'Djamena republic
LANGUAGE : Arabic and French CAPITAL : Djibouti
CURRENCY : Central African CFA franc (XAF) LANGUAGE : Arabic, French
CURRENCY : Djiboutian franc (DJF)

COMOROS EGYPT
LEADER : Azali Assoumani LEADER : Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

GOVERNMENT : Federal presidential republic GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential republic

CAPITAL : Moroni CAPITAL : Cairo
LANGUAGE : LANGUAGE : Arabic
CURRENCY : Comorian franc (KMF) CURRENCY : Egyptian pound (E£) (EGP)

DEMOCRATIC EQUATORIAL GUINEA

REPUBLIC OF THE LEADER : Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

CONGO GOVERNMENT : Dominant-party presidential

REPUBLIC OF THE republic (de jure)

Unitary one-party state (de facto)
CONGO CAPITAL : Malabo
LANGUAGE : Spanish (national language),
LEADER : Joseph Kabila French, Portuguese
CURRENCY : Central African CFA franc (XAF)
GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential republic
ERITREA
CAPITAL : Kinshasa
LEADER : Isaias Afwerki
LANGUAGE : French, Lingala, Kikongo, Swahili,
Tshiluba GOVERNMENT : Unitary one-party presidential
CURRENCY : Congolese franc (CDF) republic
CAPITAL : Asmara
 GUINEA
LANGUAGE : Tigrinya, Arabic, Tigre, Kunama,
Saho, Bilen, Nara, Afar
CURRENCY : Nakfa (ERN)
LEADER : Alpha Condé

ETHIOPIA
GOVERNMENT : Presidential republic
CAPITAL : Conakry
LANGUAGE : Fula, Mandinka, Susu
LEADER : Mulatu Teshome
CURRENCY : Guinean franc (GNF)
GOVERNMENT : Federal parliamentary republic

GUINEA-BISSAU
CAPITAL : Addis Ababa
LANGUAGE : Federation member languages
CURRENCY : Birr (ETB)
LEADER : José Mário Vaz

GABON
GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential republic
CAPITAL : Bissau
LANGUAGE : Portuguese, Upper Guinea Creole
LEADER : Ali Bongo Ondimba
CURRENCY : West African CFA franc (XOF)
GOVERNMENT : Dominant-party presidential
republic
CAPITAL : Libreville KENYA
LANGUAGE : French
CURRENCY : Central African CFA franc (XAF) LEADER : Uhuru Kenyatta

GAMBIA GOVERNMENT : Unitary presidential constitutional

republic
CAPITAL : Nairobi
LEADER :
LANGUAGE : Kiswahili
GOVERNMENT : Unitary presidential republic CURRENCY : Kenyan shilling (KES)
CAPITAL : Banjul

LESOTHO
LANGUAGE : Mandinka, Fula, Wolof, Serer, Jola
CURRENCY : Dalasi (GMD)

LEADER : Letsie III

GHANA GOVERNMENT : Unitary parliamentary constitutional
monarchy
LEADER : Nana Akufo-Addo CAPITAL : Maseru

GOVERNMENT : Unitary presidential constitutional LANGUAGE : Sotho, English

republic CURRENCY : Lesotho loti (LSL)
CAPITAL : Accra

LIBERIA
LANGUAGE : Asante Twi, Dagaare, Dagbani,
Dangme, Ewe, Ga, Gonja, Kasem,
Fante, Akuapem Twi, Nzema,
LEADER : Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Wasa, Talensi, Frafra, Hausa,
Ghanaian Sign Language GOVERNMENT : Unitary presidential republic
CURRENCY : Ghana cedi (GH₵) (GHS) CAPITAL : Monrovia
LANGUAGE : English
CURRENCY : Liberian dollar (LRD)
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LIBYA
CURRENCY :

MAURITIUS
LEADER : Fayez al-Sarraj
LEADER : Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
GOVERNMENT : Provisional government
CAPITAL : Tripoli GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential Islamic
LANGUAGE : Arabic republic

CURRENCY : Libyan dinar (LYD) CAPITAL : Nouakchott

LANGUAGE : Arabic
CURRENCY : Ouguiya (MRO)
MADAGASCAR
LEADER : Hery Rajaonarimampianina MOROCCO
GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential
LEADER : Mohammed VI
constitutional republic
CAPITAL : Antananarivo GOVERNMENT : Unitary parliamentary constitutional
LANGUAGE : Malagasy, French monarchy

CURRENCY : Malagasy ariary (MGA) CAPITAL : Rabat

LANGUAGE : Arabic, Berber
CURRENCY : Moroccan dirham (MAD)
MALAWI
MOZAMBIQUE
LEADER : Arthur Peter Mutharika
LEADER : Filipe Nyusi
GOVERNMENT : Unitary presidential republic
CAPITAL : Lilongwe GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential republic

LANGUAGE : English, Chichewa CAPITAL : Maputo

CURRENCY : Kwacha (D) (MWK) LANGUAGE : Portuguese

CURRENCY : Mozambican metical (MZN)

MALI
NAMIBIA
LEADER : Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
LEADER : Hage Geingob
GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential republic
CAPITAL : Bamako GOVERNMENT : Unitary dominant-party semi-
presidential republic
LANGUAGE : Bambara Bomu, Tieyaxo, Bozo,
CAPITAL : Windhoek
Toro So Dogon
LANGUAGE : English
CURRENCY : West African CFA franc (XOF)
CURRENCY : Namibian dollar (NAD),
South African rand (ZAR)

MAURITANIA
LEADER :

GOVERNMENT :
CAPITAL : Nouakchott
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LANGUAGE : Balanta-Ganja Hassaniya Arabic
Jola-Fonyi Mandinka Mandjak
Mankanya Noon Pulaar Serer
LEADER : Mahamadou Issoufou
Soninke Wolof
GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential republic CURRENCY : CFA franc (XOF)
CAPITAL : Niamey

SEYCHELLES
LANGUAGE : Arabic, Buduma
CURRENCY : West African CFA franc (XOF)

LEADER : Danny Faure

NIGERIA GOVERNMENT : Unitary presidential republic

CAPITAL : Victoria
LEADER : Muhammadu Buhari
LANGUAGE : English, French, Seychellois Creole
GOVERNMENT : Federal presidential republic CURRENCY : Seychellois rupee (SCR)
CAPITAL : Abuja

SIERRA LEONE
LANGUAGE : English
CURRENCY : Naira (₦) (NGN)

LEADER : Ernest Bai Koroma (APC)

RWANDA GOVERNMENT : Unitary presidential constitutional
republic
LEADER : Paul Kagame CAPITAL : Freetown
LANGUAGE : Temne, Mende, Krio
GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential republic
CAPITAL : Kigali CURRENCY : Leone (SLL)

LANGUAGE : Kinyarwanda, English, French,

CURRENCY
Swahili
: Rwandan franc (RWF)
SOMALIA
LEADER : Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed

SAO TOME AND GOVERNMENT : Federal parliamentary republic

PRINCIPE CAPITAL
LANGUAGE
: Mogadishu
: Somali, Arabic
CURRENCY : Somali shilling (SOS)
LEADER : Evaristo Carvalho

SOUTH AFRICA
GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential republic
CAPITAL : São Tomé
LANGUAGE : Portuguese
CURRENCY : Dobra (STD) LEADER : Jacob Zuma

GOVERNMENT : Unitary parliamentary constitutional

SENEGAL
republic
CAPITAL : Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein
(judicial), Cape Town (legislative)
LEADER : Macky Sall LANGUAGE : Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, English,
GOVERNMENT : Semi-presidential republic Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho,
CAPITAL : Dakar Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda,
Xhosa, Zulu
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CURRENCY : South African rand (ZAR)

SOUTH SUDAN
LEADER : Faure Gnassingbé
LEADER : Salva Kiir Mayardit
GOVERNMENT : Presidential republic
GOVERNMENT : Federation under a presidential CAPITAL : Lomé
constitutional republic LANGUAGE : French
CAPITAL : Juba CURRENCY : West African CFA franc (XOF)
LANGUAGE : English
CURRENCY : South Sudanese pound (SSP)
TUNISIA
SUDAN
LEADER : Beji Caid Essebsi
LEADER : Omar al-Bashir
GOVERNMENT : Unitary semi-presidential republic
GOVERNMENT : Federated dominant-party CAPITAL : Tunis
presidential republic under a
totalitarian dictatorship LANGUAGE : Tunisian Arabic, Berber, French

CAPITAL : Khartoum CURRENCY : Tunisian dinar (TND)

LANGUAGE : Arabic, English

CURRENCY : Sudanese pound (SDG)
UGANDA
SWAZILAND LEADER : Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

LEADER : Mswati III GOVERNMENT : Dominant-party semi-presidential

republic
GOVERNMENT : Unitary parliamentary diarchic
CAPITAL : Kampala
absolute monarchy
CAPITAL : Mbabane (executive), Lobamba LANGUAGE : English, Swahili

(legislative) CURRENCY : Ugandan shilling (UGX)

LANGUAGE : Swazi, English

CURRENCY : South African rand, Swazi lilangeni
(SZL)
ZAMBIA
LEADER : Edgar Lungu

TANZANIA GOVERNMENT : Unitary Presidential republic

CAPITAL : Lusaka
LEADER : John Pombe Magufuli LANGUAGE : English

GOVERNMENT : Unitary presidential republic CURRENCY : Zambian kwacha (ZMW)

CAPITAL : Dodoma (de jure), Dar es Salaam

LANGUAGE
(de facto)
: None de jure
ZIMBABWE
CURRENCY : Tanzanian shilling (TZS)
LEADER : Emmerson Mnangagwa

GOVERNMENT : Unitary dominant-party presidential

republic (de jure), Military
dictatorship under a presidential
republic (de facto)
CAPITAL : Harare
LANGUAGE : Chewa, Chibarwe, English
CURRENCY : United States dollar (official for
government), South African rand,
and many other currenciesa, e.g.
Botswana pula, euro, Indian rupees,
pound sterling, Australian dollars.
Zimbabwean bond coins are used as
a proxy for US dollar and cent
coins. Zimbabwean bond notes for 2
and 5 dollars were introduced in
2016 at par value of the US dollar