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Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa
Association des Comités Nationaux Olympiques d'Afrique
	Countries which are members
Formation	28 June 1981; 43 years ago
Type	Sports federation
Headquarters	Abuja, Nigeria
Membership	54 National Olympic Committees
Official language	English, French
President	Mustapha Berraf
Website	ANOCA ACNOA

The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (acronym: ANOCA; French: Association des Comités Nationaux Olympiques d'Afrique, ACNOA, Arabic: رابطة اللجان الأولمبية الوطنية في إفريقيا) is an international organization that unites the 54 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of Africa. It is currently headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria. It serves as the successor to Standing Committee of African Sports or Comité permanent du sport africain founded in 1965 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

It often assembles with other continental NOCs in the form of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC).

History

The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) was founded on June 28, 1981, in Lome, Togo. In July 1965, ANOCA's predecessor, the Standing Committee of African Sports (SCAS) was founded in Brazzaville as Comité Permanent du Sport Africain (CPSA). Consequently, that title for the sports continental body changed to the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) on 14 December 1966 in Bamako, Mali.

On 4 March 2023, ANOCA announced their support for the International Olympic Committee's decision to reinstate Russian and Belarusian athletes as neutrals amidst the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, as well as the countries' participation in the Olympics.^[1]

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Member countries

In the following table, the year in which the NOC was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also given if it is different from the year in which the NOC was created.

Nation	Code	National Olympic Committee	President	Created	ANOCA Member	IOC member	Ref.
North Africa Zone
Algeria	ALG	Algerian Olympic Committee	Abderrahmane Hammad	1963	1965	Yes	[1]
Egypt	EGY	Egyptian Olympic Committee	Hesham Mohamed Tawfeq Hatab	1910	1965	Yes	[2]
Libya	LBA	Libyan Olympic Committee	Gamal Ezzarrugh	1962	1963	Yes	[3]
Morocco	MAR	Moroccan Olympic Committee	Faïçal Laraïchi	1959	1959	Yes	[4]
Sudan	SUD	Sudan Olympic Committee	Hashim Haroun Ahmed	1956/1959	1965	Yes	[5]
Tunisia	TUN	Tunisian Olympic Committee	Mehrez Boussayene	1957	1965	Yes	[6]
West Africa Zone
Benin	BEN	Benin National Olympic and Sports Committee	Marius Francisco	1962	TBD	Yes	[7]
Burkina Faso	BUR	Burkinabé National Olympic and Sports Committee	Jean-Pascal Kinda	1965/1972	1965	Yes	[8]
Cape Verde	CPV	Comité Olímpico Caboverdeano	Filomena Fortes	1989/1993	TBD	Yes	[9]
Gambia	GAM	Gambia National Olympic Committee	Beatrice Allen	1972/1976	TBD	Yes	[10]
Ghana	GHA	Ghana Olympic Committee	Ben Nunoo Mensah	1950/1951 ^[2]	1965	Yes	[11]
Guinea	GUI	Guinean National Olympic and Sports Committee	Nabi Camara	1964/1965	TBD	Yes	[12]
Guinea-Bissau	GBS	Comité Olímpico da Guiné-Bissau	Sérgio Mané	1992/1995	TBD	Yes	[13]
Ivory Coast	CIV	Comité National Olympique de Côte d'Ivoire	Lassana Palenfo	1962/1963	1965	Yes	[14]
Liberia	LBR	Liberia National Olympic Committee	Philipbert S. Browne	1954/1955	TBD	Yes	[15]
Mali	MLI	Comité National Olympique et Sportif du Mali	Habib Sissoko	1962/1963	1965	Yes	[16]
Mauritania	MTN	Comité National Olympique et Sportif Mauritanien	Abderrahmane Ethmane	1962/1979	TBD	Yes	[17]
Niger	NIG	Nigerien Olympic and National Sports Committee	Issaka Ide	1964	1965	Yes	[18]
Nigeria	NGR	Nigeria Olympic Committee	Habu Gumel	1950/1951 ^[3]	1965	Yes	[19]
Senegal	SEN	Comité National Olympique et Sportif Sénégalais	Mamadou D. Ndiaye	1961/1963	1965	Yes	[20]
Sierra Leone	SLE	National Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone	Patrick Coker	1964	TBD	Yes	[21]
Togo	TOG	Togolese National Olympic Committee	Deladem Akpaki	1963/1965	1965	Yes	[22]
Central Africa Zone
Cameroon	CMR	Cameroon Olympic and Sports Committee	Hamad Kalkaba Malboum	1963	1965	Yes	[23]
Central African Republic	CAF	Comité National Olympique et Sportif Centrafricain	Gilles Gilbert Gresenguet	1964/1965	1965	Yes	[24]
Chad	CHA	Chadian Olympic and Sports Committee	Abakar Djermah Aumi	1963/1964	1965	Yes	[25]
Congo	CGO	Comité National Olympique et Sportif Congolais	Raymond Ibata	1964	1965	Yes	[26]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	COD	Comité Olympique Congolais	Marcel Amos Mbayo Kitenge	1963/1968	1965	Yes	[27]
Equatorial Guinea	GEQ	Comité Olímpico de Guinea Ecuatorial	Manuel Sabino Asumu Cawan	1980/1984	TBD	Yes	[28]
Gabon	GAB	Comité Olympique Gabonais	Léon Louis Folquet	1965/1968	1965	Yes	[29]
São Tomé and Príncipe	STP	Comité Olímpico de São Tomé e Príncipe	João Manuel da Costa Alegre Afonso	1979/1993	TBD	Yes	[30]
East Africa Zone
Burundi	BDI	Burundi National Olympic Committee	Lydia Nsekera	1990/1993	TBD	Yes	[31]
Djibouti	DJI	Djibouti National Olympic and Sports Committee	Aïcha Garad Ali	1983/1984	TBD	Yes	[32]
Eritrea	ERI	Eritrean National Olympic Committee	Luul Fisshaye	1996/1999	TBD	Yes	[33]
Ethiopia	ETH	Ethiopian Olympic Committee	Birhane Kidanemariam	1948/1954	1965	Yes	[34]
Kenya	KEN	National Olympic Committee of Kenya	Paul Tergat	1955	1965	Yes	[35]
Rwanda	RWA	Comité National Olympique et Sportif du Rwanda	Valens Munyabagisha	1984	TBD	Yes	[36]
Seychelles	SEY	Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association	Antonio Gopal	1979	TBD	Yes	[37]
Somalia	SOM	Somali Olympic Committee	Abdullahi Ahmed Tarabi	1959/1972	TBD	Yes	[38]
South Sudan	SSD	South Sudan National Olympic Committee	Wilson Deng Kuoirot	2015	2015	Yes	[39]
Tanzania	TAN	Tanzania Olympic Committee	Gulam Abdulla Rashid	1968	1965	Yes	[40]
Uganda	UGA	Uganda Olympic Committee	Donald Rukare	1950/1956	1965	Yes	[41]
Southern Africa Zone
Angola	ANG	Angolan Olympic Committee	Gustavo Dias Vaz da Conceição	1979/1980	TBD	Yes	[42]
Botswana	BOT	Botswana National Olympic Committee	Botsang Tshenyego	1978/1980	TBD	Yes	[43]
Comoros	COM	Comité Olympique et Sportif des Iles Comores	Madiane Mohamed Issa	1979/1993	TBD	Yes	[44]
Eswatini	SWZ	Eswatini Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association	Peter Shongwe	1971/1972	TBD	Yes	[45]
Lesotho	LES	Lesotho National Olympic Committee	Matlohang Moiloa-Ramoqopo	1971/1972	TBD	Yes	[46]
Madagascar	MAD	Comité Olympique Malgache	Siteny Thierry Randrianasoloniaiko	1963/1964	1965	Yes	[47]
Malawi	MAW	Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association of Malawi	Jappie Mhango	1968	TBD	Yes	[48]
Mauritius	MRI	Mauritius Olympic Committee	Philippe Hao Thyn Voon Ha Shun	1971/1972	TBD	Yes	[49]
Mozambique	MOZ	Comité Olímpico Nacional de Moçambique	Anibal Manave	1979	TBD	Yes	[50]
Namibia	NAM	Namibian National Olympic Committee	Agnes Tjongarero	1990/1991	TBD	Yes	[51]
South Africa	RSA	South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee	Barry Hendricks	1991	TBD	Yes	[52]
Zambia	ZAM	National Olympic Committee of Zambia	Alfred Foloko	1964	1965	Yes	[53]
Zimbabwe	ZIM	Zimbabwe Olympic Committee	Admire Masenda	1934/1980	TBD	Yes	[54]

ANOCA Regional Zones

ANOCA Zone 1 – North Zone

ANOCA Zone 2 – West Zone A

ANOCA Zone 3 – West Zone B

ANOCA Zone 4 – Central Zone

ANOCA Zone 5 – Central-East Zone

ANOCA Zone 6 – Southern Zone A

ANOCA Zone 7 – Southern Zone B

ANOCA Presidents

S. No.	Name	Country	Tenure
1.	Anani Matthia	Togo	1981-1989
2.	Jean-Claude Ganga	Congo	1989-1999
3.	Francis Nyangweso	Uganda	1999-2001
4.	Alpha Ibrahim Diallo	Guinea	2001-2005
5.	Lassana Palenfo	Ivory Coast	2005-2018
6.	Mustapha Berraf	Algeria	2018–present