List of twin towns and sister cities in Africa

This is a list of twin towns and sister cities in Africa. That is, pairs of towns or cities in different countries in Africa which have town twinning arrangements. Where known, the date of formation of the twinning agreement is included in parentheses.

Note that the list is likely to always remain incomplete, since no canonical list of such arrangements exists; even those towns that are listed may well have arrangements which are not listed here. However, a searchable, interactive list is maintained by Sister Cities International. Any twinning arrangement should be listed at two locations in the series of lists: once for each of the towns involved in the arrangement.

Algeria
Pyongyang, North Korea[1]
Grenoble, France[2]
Durban, South Africa[3]

Angola
Porto, Portugal[4][5]
São Paulo, Brazil[6][7]

Benin

Botswana
Burbank, United States[8]
Västerås, Sweden[9]
Zhejiang Province, China[10]

Burkina Faso
Tamale, Ghana (2003)[11]

Cameroon

Cape Verde
For a more comprehensive list, see List of twin towns and sister cities in Cape Verde.

Djibouti

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Ethiopia

Gambia

Ghana
Columbia, United States[12]
Fada N'gourma, Burkina Faso (2003)[11]
Louisville, United States (1979)[13]
Niamey Commune II, Niger (2008)[14]

Kenya
Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali
  • Segou

Mauritius
  • Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill

Morocco
La Rochelle, France (since 1999)[15]
Coimbra, Portugal[16]
İzmir, Turkey, since 1995[17]

Mozambique

Namibia
San Antonio, Texas U.S.A.,[18]

Niger
Tamale, Ghana (2008)[14]

Nigeria
Compton, California, United States (2010)[20]
  • Old Orlu
  • Owerri

Republic of the Congo
Dresden, Germany (1975)[22]

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Rwanda

Senegal

São Tomé and Principe
Lisbon, Portugal[23][24]

Sierra Leone

Somalia
Almaty, Kazakhstan[25]
Ankara, Turkey[26]
Istanbul, Turkey[27]

South Africa
Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in South Africa

Sudan

Swaziland

Tanzania

Togo
Shenzhen, China, since 1993[28][29][30]

Tunisia
Grenoble, France[2]
Marburg, Germany[31]

Uganda

Western Sahara

Zambia

Zimbabwe
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (1986)[33]

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