Algeria

Angola

The US supported the FNLA and UNITA, Savimbi and South Africa with arms and money against the socialist ruling party NPLA led by Neto and Dos Santos and supported by the USSR and Cuba in a destructive civil war. US oil companies obtained cheap oil in exchange for arms.

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

The US shunned early socialist governments, leading to economic problems.

Burundi

The US did little about the 1993-4 war, genocidal massacres and starvation.

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)

The US supported King Leopold of Belgium and brutal Belgian colonialism. The CIA helped murder outspoken leader Patrice Lumumba and bring to power dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. The US supported Mobutu for 30 years as he robbed the country of oil, diamonds and minerals, destroyed the country's infrastructure, and allowed US military presence for intervention in other conflicts.

Djibouti

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

The US denied the Eritrean people's desire for an independent state because of its strategic location in the gulf. The US supplied arms to Ethiopia to fight against Eritrea's bid for independence.

Ethiopia

The US supported Emperor Haile Selassie's conservative dictatorship and helped Ethiopia build the largest army in Africa. The US did little to prevent mass starvation in the 1980s. The US supplied arms to Somalia in the war against socialist Ethiopia and Haile Mariam in the 1980s.

Gabon

The Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

The US isolated Sekou Toure for being socialist, leading to economic ruin of a relatively prosperous country.

Guinea-Bissau

Ivory Coast

The US supported conservative leader Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who built an enormous cathedral in his home town and built western cities at the expense of the rest of the population.

Kenya

The US supported conservative dictator Daniel arap Moi, who was responsible for widespread corruption and suppression of opposition and human rights.

Lesotho

Liberia

For over 100 years, black American settlers colonised Liberia and treated the indigenous Africans poorly. The US strongly supported Samuel Doe's vicious dictatorship during the 1980s. The US helped drag out the civil war against Charles Taylor by several years during the early 1990s.

Libya

The US bombed Libya in the 1980s for the explosion of a plane in Scotland, and the US sanctioned Libya because radical leader Moamar Kadafi would not extradite the bombing suspects.

Madagascar

Malawi

The US supported conservative dictator Hastings Banda, who remained in power for over 30 years.

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Morocco

The US supported conservative dictator King Hassan II.

Mozambique

The US supported Renamo and South Africa with arms and money in a 1980s civil war against the socialist ruling party Frelimo that led to the assassination of the leader Samora Machel and destroyed the country.

Namibia

The US supported Jonas Savimbi and UNITA, and the Apartheid policies of South Africa, against Sam Nujoma and socialist party SWAPO's independence efforts in the 1970s and 1980s.

Niger

Nigeria

The US oil companies received cheap oil under military rulers, despite their corruption and their detention and murders of opposition leaders such as Ken Saro-Wiwa and Moshood and Kudirat Abiola.

Rwanda

The US did little to prevent the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis in 1994.

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

The US supported conservative pro-West leader Leopold Senghor.

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Somalia

The US supplied arms and fought against Islam and communism in the civil war in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

South Africa

The US supported and invested heavily in the white racist Apartheid regime of the National Party, led by P. W. Botha in the 1980s. The US opposed the socialist African National Congress led by Nelson Mandela, who was in prison until 1990.

Sudan

The US supplied arms in support of the southern anti-Islamic rebels in the civil war.

Swaziland

The US supported the conservative, pro-Apartheid monarchy.

Tanzania

The US isolated president Julius Nyerere for his socialist, anti-Apartheid policies. The country was led to economic ruin.

Togo

The US supported Gnassingbe Eyadema's long conservative dictatorship despite suppression of the opposition and elections that clearly showed his unpopularity.

Tunisia

Uganda

The US supported the two notoriously murderous dictators Milton Obote and Idi Amin.

Western Sahara

The US supported Moroccan King Hassan II and his expensive 20-year military occupation of Western Sahara against the Polisario and its allies Algeria and the USSR. US support allowed Morocco to construct and maintain a thousand-mile wall of sand near the Western Sahara borders and force the country's occupants to remain refugees in Algeria.

Zambia

The US shunned Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia for his anti-Apartheid policies and support of the ANC and SWAPO. Zambia's economy was ruined in supporting the anti-Apartheid struggle.

Zimbabwe

The US supported white-ruled Rhodesia until independence and was against president Robert Mugabe until he became conservative and pro-West and dropped his Marxist rhetoric and socialist policies.