Protocol Watch
The position as of October 2016
Not Signed
Botswana and Egypt (Total 2)
Signed but not Ratified
Algeria, Burundi, Central Africa Republic,Chad, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Sao Tome & Principe, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan,Tunisia (Total 15)
Signed and Ratified
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros,Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Seychelles,Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Total 37)
Read more about the ratification on the AU site.
State | Signed | Ratified | Deposited |
Algeria | 29/12/2003 | ||
Angola | 22/01/2007 | 30/08/2007 | 09/11/2007 |
Benin | 11/02/2004 | 30/09/2005 | 13/10/2005 |
Botswana | |||
Burkina Faso | 26/02/2004 | 09/06/2006 | 09/08/2006 |
Burundi | 03/12/2003 | ||
Cameroon | 25/07/2006 | 13/09/2012 | 28/12/2012 |
Cape Verde | 21/06/2005 | 22/07/2005 | |
Central African Republic | 17/06/2008 | ||
Chad | 06/12/2004 | ||
Comoros | 26/02/2004 | 18/03/2004 | 16/04/2004 |
Congo | 27/02/2004 | 14/12/2011 | 06/08/2012 |
Cote d'Ivoire | 27/02/2004 | 05/10/2011 | 09/03/2012 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 05/12/2003 | 09/06/2008 | 09/02/2009 |
Djibouti | 18/12/2003 | 02/02/2005 | 04/02/2005 |
Egypt | |||
Equatorial Guinea | 30/01/2005 | 27/10/2009 | 29/06/2011 |
Eritrea | 25/04/2012 | ||
Ethiopia | 01/06/2004 | ||
Gabon | 27/01/2005 | 10/01/2011 | 10/02/2011 |
Gambia | 11/09/2003 | 25/05/2005 | 06/09/2005 |
Ghana | 31/10/2003 | 13/06/2007 | 20/07/2007 |
Guinea | 16/12/2003 | 16/04/2012 | 17/09/2012 |
Guinea-Bissau | 08/03/2005 | 19/06/2008 | 14/10/2008 |
Kenya | 17/12/2003 | 06/10/2010 | 13/10/2010 |
Lesotho | 27/02/2004 | 26/10/2004 | 05/11/2004 |
Liberia | 16/12/2003 | 14/12/2007 | 15/07/2008 |
Libya | 05/11/2003 | 23/05/2004 | 30/06/2004 |
Madagascar | 28/02/2004 | ||
Malawi | 20/05/2005 | 29/06/2005 | |
Mali | 09/12/2003 | 13/01/2005 | 03/02/2005 |
Mauritania | 21/09/2005 | 14/12/2005 | |
Mauritius | 29/01/2005 | ||
Mozambique | 15/12/2003 | 09/12/2005 | 30/12/2005 |
Namibia | 09/12/2003 | 11/08/2004 | 26/08/2004 |
Niger | 06/07/2004 | ||
Nigeria | 16/12/2003 | 16/12/2004 | 18/02/2005 |
Rwanda | 19/12/2003 | 25/06/2004 | 01/07/2004 |
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | 20/06/2006 | ||
Sao Tome and Principe | 01/02/2010 | ||
Senegal | 26/12/2003 | 27/12/2004 | 30/01/2005 |
Seychelles | 24/01/2006 | 09/03/2006 | 25/04/2006 |
Sierra Leone | 09/12/2003 | 02/7/2015 | |
Somalia | 23/02/2006 | ||
South Africa | 16/03/2004 | 17/12/2004 | 14/01/2005 |
South Sudan | 24/01/2013 | ||
Sudan | 30/06/2008 | ||
Swaziland | 07/12/2004 | 05/10/2012 | 06/11/2012 |
Tanzania | 05/11/2003 | 03/03/2007 | 07/05/2007 |
Togo | 30/12/2003 | 12/10/2005 | 26/10/2005 |
Tunisia | 30/01/2015 | ||
Uganda | 18/12/2003 | 22/07/2010 | 22/07/2010 |
Zambia | 03/08/2005 | 02/05/2006 | 07/06/2006 |
Zimbabwe | 18/11/2003 | 15/04/2008 | 05/09/2008 |