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AFRICA INDEX

IAJGS gratefully acknowledges the major contribution of Dr. Saul Issroff in the creation of the Africa section of the IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project.

Algeria
Angola, formerly Portuguese West Africa
Benin,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Dahomey
 Botswana, formerly Bechuanaland
Burkino Faso,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Upper Volta
Burundi,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Urundi (then part of Ruanda-Urundi)
 Cameroon  No Data, Can You Help?
Cape Verde, see under "Atlantic Ocean & Caribbean"
Central African Republic,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Ubangi-Shari
Chad No Data, Can You Help?
Comoros No Data, Can You Help?
Congo, Democratic Republic of, formerly Zaire; Belgian     Congo
Congo, Republic of,No Data, Can You Help? formerly French (Middle) Congo
 Côte d'Ivoire, No Data, Can You Help? Ivory Coast
Djibouti,No Data, Can You Help? formerly French Somaliland (French Territory of
    the Afars and Issas)
Eritrea, No Data, Can You Help?  formerly part of Ethiopia
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Spanish Guinea (Rio Muni     and Fernando Po & Annobón)
Ethiopia, formerly Abyssinia
Gabon No Data, Can You Help?
Gambia No Data, Can You Help?
Ghana,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Gold Coast
Guinea,No Data, Can You Help? formerly French Guinea
Guinea-Bissau,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Portuguese Guinea
Kenya
Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire
Lesotho,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Basutoland
Liberia No Data, Can You Help? 
Libya, formerly Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan
Madagascar,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Malagasy Republic
 Mayotte No Data, Can You Help? (French), formerly part of the Comoros

Malawi,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Nyasaland
Mali, formerly French Soudan
Mauritania No Data, Can You Help?
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique, formerly Portuguese East Africa
 Namibia, formerly South West Africa; German South West     Africa  
 Niger No Data, Can You Help?
Nigeria No Data, Can You Help?   
Reunion No Data, Can You Help? (French)
Rwanda,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Ruanda (then part of Ruanda-Urundi)
 São Tomé and Príncipe No Data, Can You Help? 
Senegal No Data, Can You Help?
Seychelles No Data, Can You Help?
Sierra Leone No Data, Can You Help? 
South Africa
Spanish North Africa (Ceuta and Melilla)
Somalia,No Data, Can You Help? formerly Italian and British Somaliland
 South West Africa, now Namibia
Sudan, No Data, Can You Help? formerly Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania, No Data, Can You Help? union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar
   (both formerly British).  Tanganyika (with Burundi
   and Rwanda) was German East Africa prior to WW1.
Togo No Data, Can You Help?
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara, claimed and occupied by Morocco,
     formerly Spanish Sahara; Rio de Oro 
Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo 
Zambia, formerly Northern Rhodesia
Zimbabwe, formerly Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia


Although many of the countries listed above had no established Jewish community, there may, from time to time, have been a small number of Jewish residents and instances of Jewish burials. Please contact us if you have any information of this nature. 

http://amyisrael.co.il/africa is the website of the Jewish Communities of Africa. [May 2001]

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