Africa

Africa - peace through sports

URI Africa is divided into four zones: Southern Africa, Great Lakes, West Africa, and the Horn of Africa.

URI member groups are present in the following countries in these zones:

Great Lakes 

  • Burundi 
  • Congo
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Kenya
  • Rwanda
  • South Sudan
  • Uganda
  • United Republic of Tanzania

Send an email to the URI staff in the Great Lakes


Horn of Africa     

  • Chad
  • Djibouti 
  • Ethiopia
  • Somalia
  • Sudan

Send an email to the URI staff in the Horn of Africa


Southern Africa

  • Angola 
  • Kingdom of Eswatini
  • Malawi
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • South Africa
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe 

Send an email to the URI staff in Southern Africa


Western Africa

  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cameroon
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Liberia
  • Mali
  • Nigeria 
  • Senegal
  • Sierra Leone
  • Togo

Send an email to the URI staff in Western Africa

Search for Cooperation Circles (CCs) in Africa

Stories From URI Africa

Golden Rule Message - 5 April 2022 - from Amb. Mussie Hailu

April 5 is Golden Rule Day - a day when the URI community celebrates the Golden Rule, “Treat others and the planet as you would like to be treated.” This is a universal principle shared by nearly all cultural, spiritual, religious, and secular traditions on Earth.

Environmental and Media Activism for Sustainable Development

The Centre for Environmental Education and Development (CEED) Taraba State Nigeria was established in February, 2003, to increase awareness about the environment and sustainable development by Mr. Raymond Nyayiti Enoch, in recognition of the role environment, education, sustainable development; rights of all people to live in it play in promoting holistic human development.