Africa

UNESCO's work in Africa is carried out by the following Field Units and Institutes:

UNESCO Regional Bureaux

Dakar Regional Bureau for Education in Africa

Nairobi Regional Bureau for Science in Africa


UNESCO Cluster Offices

Accra Central and Western Africa Cluster Office
(countries under this cluster office are Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo)

Addis Ababa Eastern Africa Cluster
(countries under this cluster office are Djibouti and Ethiopia)

Bamako Central and Western Africa Cluster Office
(countries under this cluster officer are Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger)

Dakar Central and Western Africa Cluster Office
(countries under this cluster office are Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal)

Dar es Salaam Eastern Africa Cluster Office
(Countries under this office are Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Tanzania)

Harare Southern Africa Cluster Office
(countries under this cluster office are Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe)

Libreville Central and Western Africa Cluster Office
(countries under this cluster office are Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe)

Nairobi Cluster Office
(countries under this cluster office are Burundi, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda)

Windhoek Southern Africa Cluster Office
(countries under this cluster office are Angola, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland)

Yaoundé Western and Central Africa Cluster Office
(countries under this cluster office are Cameroon, Central African Republic and Chad)


National Offices

Bujumbura Office for Burundi
Brazzaville Office for Congo
Kinshasa Office for Democratic Republic of the Congo
Maputo Office for Mozambique
Abuja Office for Nigeria


Institutes

UNESCO International Institute for Capacity-Building in Africa (IICBA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia



The Africa region presented here follows the specific UNESCO definition which does not forcibly reflect geography. It refers to the execution of regional activities of the Organization.