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 Abdelkader Bensalah (acting pres) | president@el-mouradia.dz |
| Angola | Signed and ratified | President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco | assembleianacional@parlamento.ao |
| Benin | Signed and ratified | President Patrice Talon | infos-cabinet@assemblee-nationale.bj |
| Botswana | NOT signed or ratified | President Mokgweetsi Masisi | op.registry@gov.bw |
| Burkina Faso | Signed and ratified | President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré | gannbou@gmail.com |
| Burundi | Signed but NOT ratified | President Pierre Nkurunziza | pierre.nkurunziza@burundi.gov.bi |
| Cameroon | Signed and ratified | President Paul Biya | cellcom@prc.cm |
| Cape Verde | Signed and ratified | President Jorge Carlos Fonseca | correia.ulisses@gmail.com (Prime Minister) or ancv@parlamento.cv (Parliament email) |
| Central African Republic | Signed but NOT ratified | President Faustin-Archange Touadéra | assemblee_nationalerca@yahoo.com (National Assembly email) |
| Chad | Signed but NOT ratified | President Idriss Déby | contact@presidence.td |
| Comoros | Signed and ratified | President Azali Assoumani | smas.sgg@gmail.com (Parliament email) |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Signed and ratified | President Félix Tshisekedi | cabinet@presidentrdc.cd |
| Republic of Congo | Signed and ratified | President Denis Sassou Nguesso | lacosfr@yahoo.fr (Prime Minister email); eta.mongombon@gmail.com (Senate email) |
| Djibouti | Signed and ratified | President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh | assnatdji@intnet.dj (National assembly) |
| Egypt | NOT signed or ratified | President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi |
feedback@sis.gov.eg info@sisi2014.net media.office8@op.gov.eg |
| (Equatorial) Guinea | Signed and ratified | President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | parlamento.guineaecuatorial@yahoo.es (Parliament email) |
| Eritrea | Signed but NOT ratified | President Isaias Afwerki | no email address |
| Eswatini | Signed and ratified | King Mswati III | dlaminiea@gov.sz (Prime Minister email) |
| Ethiopia | Signed and ratified | Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed | national.parliament@ethionet.et (Parliament) |
| Gabon | Signed and ratified | President Ali Bongo Ondimba | tiomena1@yahoo.fr (Senate) |
| Ghana | Signed and ratified | President Nana Akufo-Addo | info@presidency.gov.gh |
| Guinea (Republic of) | Signed and ratified | President Alpha Condé | assemblenationaleguine@yahoo.fr (National assembly) |
| Guinea-Bissau | Signed and ratified | President José Mário Vaz | contato@anpguinebissau.org (National Popular assembly) |
| Ivory Coast | Signed and ratified | President Alassane Ouattara | contact@egouv.ci |
| Kenya | Signed and ratified | President Uhuru Kenyatta | ads@mygov.go.ke |
| Lesotho | Signed and ratified | Prime Minister Tom Thabane | parliam@ilesotho.com (National Assembly); mosito.lelimo@gmail.com (Asst. Deputy Clerk) |
| Liberia | Signed and ratified | President George Weah | info@emansion.gov.lr |
| Libya | Signed and ratified | Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj | presidential.affairs@libyan-parliament.org |
| Madagascar | Signed but NOT ratified | President Andry Rajoelina | sg@senat.gov.mg (Senate) |
| Malawi | Signed and ratified | President Peter Mutharika | opc@opc.gov.mw |
| Mali | Signed and ratified | President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta | presidence@koulouba.ml infomali@agetic.gouv.ml |
| Mauritania | Signed and ratified | President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz* | contact@assembleenationale.mr (National Assembly) |
| Mauritius | Signed and ratified | President ( acting ) Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory | president@govmu.org; privateoffice@govmu.org (Prime Minster's Office) |
| Morocco | NOT signed or ratified | King Mohammed VI | roi@soufiane.org (King); elotmanis@gmail.com (Prime Minister) |
| Mozambique | Signed and ratified | President Filipe Nyusi | egov@gov.mz |
| Namibia | Signed and ratified | President Hage Geingob | info.op@op.gov.na |
| Niger | Signed but NOT ratified | President Mahamadou Issoufou | an@assemblee.ne (National Assembly) |
| Nigeria | Signed and ratified | President Muhammadu Buhari | info@nigeria.gov.ng |
| Rwanda | Signed and ratified | President Paul Kagame | olivier.mushimire@parliament.gov.rw (Advisor to the President - Mushimire Olivier); info@parliament.gov.rw (Senate) |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Signed and ratified | President Manuel Pinto da Costa | no email address |
| Senegal | Signed and ratified | President Macky Sall | macky@mackysall.com |
| Seychelles | Signed and ratified | President Danny Faure | clerk@nationalassembly.sc (National Assembly) |
| Sierra Leone | Signed and ratified | President Julius Maada Bio | info@statehouse.gov.sl |
| Somalia | Signed but NOT ratified | President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed | media@presidency.gov.so; mfarmaajo@yahoo.com; info@opm.gov.so (Prime Minister's office) |
| South Africa | Signed and ratified | President Cyril Ramaphosa | president@po.gov.za |
| South Sudan | Not ratified | President Salva Kiir Mayardit | musabiong@yahoo.ca (Mustafa Biong Majak Koul - Director General of Information) |
| Sudan | Signed but NOT ratified | Position vacant | info@presidency.gov.sd |
| The Gambia | Signed and ratified | President Adama Barrow | info@op.gov.gm absissoho@op.gov.gm |
| Tanzania | Signed and ratified | President John Magufuli | ikulu@ikulu.go.tz (State House) katibumkuu@sheria.go.tz (Constitution and Legal Affairs) ps@pmo.go.tz (Prime Minister office) |
| Togo | Signed and ratified | President Faure Gnassingbe | communication@presidence.gouv.tg |
| Tunisia | Signed and ratified | President Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi | boc@pm.gov.tn; youssefchahed.officiel@gmail.com (Head of Gov't) |
| Uganda | Signed and ratified | President Yoweri Museveni | cpa@parliament.go.ug (Parliament) |
| Zambia | Signed and ratified | President Edgar Lungu | info@SH.gov.zm (Press and Public Relations) |
| Zimbabwe | Signed and ratified | President Emmerson Mnangagwa | clerk@parlzim.gov.zw (National Assembly) |