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.
