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U.S. Department of State Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 1999: Africa Released by the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Washington, DC, September 9, 1999

For Northern Africa see Near East and North Africa Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, Democractic Republic of Congo, Republic of Cote D'Ivoire Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe [end of document] Table of Contents | International Religious Freedom Index | Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Department of State