- Benin – Porto-Novo (seat of government at Cotonou) – Mathieu Kérékou
- Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou -Blaise Compaore
- Cape Verde – Praia -Pedro Pires
- Central African Republic – Bangui - President François Bozizé
- Congo, Democratic Republic of (also known as Congo-Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire) – Kinshasa -President Joseph Kabila
- Congo, Republic of (also known as Congo-Brazzaville) – Brazzaville –-Denis Sassou-Nguesso
- Côte d'Ivoire (commonly known as Ivory Coast) – Yamoussoukro (seat of government at Abidjan) - President Laurent Gbagbo
- Equatorial Guinea – Malabo -President Teodoro Obiang
- Ethiopia – Addis Ababa -President John Agyekum Kufuor
- Gabon – Libreville – President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba
- Guinea-Bissau – Bissau –Joao Bernardo Vieira
- Madagascar – Antananarivo –Marc Ravalomanana, President
- Mauritania – Nouakchott -Mauritanian President Maaouiya Ould Taya
President, Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
- Mauritius – Port Louis -Anerood Jugnauth
- Mayotte (overseas territory of France) – Mamoudzou -President Nicolas Sarkozy
Said Omar OILI
- Mozambique – Maputo -Armando Emilio Guebuza
- Réunion (overseas department of France) – Saint-Denis -Président Paul Vergès
- Saint Helena (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Jamestown –Andrew Gurr
- Sao Tome and Principe – São Tomé -Fradique de Menezes
- Seychelles – Victoria -James Alix Michel
- Sierra Leone – Freetown - President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
- South Africa Thabo Mbeki
- Tunisia – Tunis President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
- Uganda – Kampala President Yoweri Museveni
- Western Sahara – El Aaiún King Mohammed VI