Ratify the Maputo Protocol: Contact your Head of State
Explore the list below and write to your government to ask them to take action to ensure that every country ratifies, domesticates and implement these commitments to realise the rights of women and girls in your country.
Use this template letter to contact your government.
| Country | Maputo Protocol Status | Head of State | |
| Algeria | Signed and ratified | President Abdelmadjid Tebboune | [email protected] |
| Angola | Signed and ratified | President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco | [email protected] |
| Benin | Signed and ratified | President Patrice Talon | [email protected] |
| Botswana | NOT signed or ratified | President Mokgweetsi Masisi | [email protected] |
| Burkina Faso | Signed and ratified | President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré | [email protected] |
| Burundi | Signed but NOT ratified | President Évariste Ndayishimiye | É[email protected] |
| Cameroon | Signed and ratified | President Paul Biya | [email protected] |
| Cape Verde | Signed and ratified | President Jorge Carlos Fonseca | [email protected] (Prime Minister) or [email protected] (Parliament email) |
| Central African Republic | Signed but NOT ratified | President Faustin-Archange Touadéra | [email protected] (National Assembly email) |
| Chad | Signed but NOT ratified | President Idriss Déby | [email protected] |
| Comoros | Signed and ratified | President Azali Assoumani | [email protected] (Parliament email) |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Signed and ratified | President Félix Tshisekedi | [email protected] |
| Republic of Congo | Signed and ratified | President Denis Sassou Nguesso | [email protected] (Prime Minister email); [email protected] (Senate email) |
| Djibouti | Signed and ratified | President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh | [email protected] (National assembly) |
| Egypt | NOT signed or ratified | President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi |
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] |
| (Equatorial) Guinea | Signed and ratified | President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | [email protected] (Parliament email) |
| Eritrea | Signed but NOT ratified | President Isaias Afwerki | no email address |
| Eswatini | Signed and ratified | King Mswati III | [email protected] (Prime Minister email) |
| Ethiopia | Signed and ratified | Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed | [email protected] (Parliament) |
| Gabon | Signed and ratified | President Ali Bongo Ondimba | [email protected] (Senate) |
| Ghana | Signed and ratified | President Nana Akufo-Addo | [email protected] |
| Guinea (Republic of) | Signed and ratified | President Alpha Condé | [email protected] (National assembly) |
| Guinea-Bissau | Signed and ratified | President Umaro Sissoco Embaló | [email protected] (National Popular assembly) |
| Ivory Coast | Signed and ratified | President Alassane Ouattara | [email protected] |
| Kenya | Signed and ratified | President Uhuru Kenyatta | [email protected] |
| Lesotho | Signed and ratified | Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro | [email protected] (National Assembly); [email protected] (Asst. Deputy Clerk) |
| Liberia | Signed and ratified | President George Weah | [email protected] |
| Libya | Signed and ratified | Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj | [email protected] |
| Madagascar | Signed but NOT ratified | President Andry Rajoelina | [email protected] (Senate) |
| Malawi | Signed and ratified | President Lazarus Chakwera | [email protected] |
| Mali | Signed and ratified | President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta | [email protected] [email protected] |
| Mauritania | Signed and ratified | President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz* | [email protected] (National Assembly) |
| Mauritius | Signed and ratified | President Prithvirajsing Roopun | [email protected]; [email protected] (Prime Minster's Office) |
| Morocco | NOT signed or ratified | King Mohammed VI | [email protected] (King); [email protected] (Prime Minister) |
| Mozambique | Signed and ratified | President Filipe Nyusi | [email protected] |
| Namibia | Signed and ratified | President Hage Geingob | [email protected] |
| Niger | Signed but NOT ratified | President Mahamadou Issoufou | [email protected] (National Assembly) |
| Nigeria | Signed and ratified | President Muhammadu Buhari | [email protected] |
| Rwanda | Signed and ratified | President Paul Kagame | [email protected] (Advisor to the President - Mushimire Olivier); [email protected] (Senate) |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Signed and ratified | President Evaristo Carvalho | no email address |
| Senegal | Signed and ratified | President Macky Sall | [email protected] |
| Seychelles | Signed and ratified | President Danny Faure | [email protected] (National Assembly) |
| Sierra Leone | Signed and ratified | President Julius Maada Bio | [email protected] |
| Somalia | Signed but NOT ratified | President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed | [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] (Prime Minister's office) |
| South Africa | Signed and ratified | President Cyril Ramaphosa | [email protected] |
| South Sudan | Not ratified | President Salva Kiir Mayardit | [email protected] (Mustafa Biong Majak Koul - Director General of Information) |
| Sudan | Signed but NOT ratified | Leader of the Sovereignty Council – Abdel Fattah al-Burhan | [email protected] |
| The Gambia | Signed and ratified | President Adama Barrow | [email protected] [email protected] |
| Tanzania | Signed and ratified | President John Magufuli | [email protected] (State House) [email protected] (Constitution and Legal Affairs) [email protected] (Prime Minister office) |
| Togo | Signed and ratified | President Faure Gnassingbe | [email protected] |
| Tunisia | Signed and ratified | President Kaïs Saïed | [email protected]; [email protected] (Head of Gov't) |
| Uganda | Signed and ratified | President Yoweri Museveni | [email protected] (Parliament) |
| Zambia | Signed and ratified | President Edgar Lungu | [email protected] (Press and Public Relations) |
| Zimbabwe | Signed and ratified | President Emmerson Mnangagwa | [email protected] (National Assembly) |