African Countries by Clue - Whammies

With the help of a clue, type the FIRST LETTER of the African country for which the clue applies to. Four wrong guesses and it's ALL over!

I am going off the names from Wikipedia, so some letters may not work for countries despite being techincally correct.

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Last updated: January 22, 2025

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Clue	Country
Has the longest coastline of any African country	Somalia
Only African country landlocked by another country	Lesotho
Timbuktu is located here	Mali
Exports the third-most amount of cashews	Guinea-Bissau
Was once known as the Kingdom of Dahomey	Benin
Is the last country alphabetically	Zimbabwe
Has an exclave province	Angola
Only African country where Hinduism is a majority religion	Mauritius
The only African country with an absolute monarchy	Eswatini
Has an AK-47 on its' flag	Mozambique
Became the first country to gain independence in sub-saharan Africa	Ghana
This country's national animal is the lion	Kenya
The only Muslim-majority country in Southern Africa	Comoros
Refined copper is its' second biggest export	Republic of the Congo
The capital is Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
Currently in a civil war	Sudan
Has the lowest point of land in Africa	Djibouti
Founded by freed slaves	Liberia
The Suez Canal is located here	Egypt
Has the largest church in the world	Ivory Coast
The northernmost country in Africa	Tunisia
Sometimes referred to as "Africa in Miniature"	Cameroon
It has Saloum Delta, a UNESCO Heritage Site	Senegal
The largest country in Africa	Algeria
One of the world's biggest phosphate producers	Togo
Belgium once owned this country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Its' film industry is sometimes called 'Nollywood'	Nigeria

Clue	Country
Has the highest nominal GDP capita of any African country	Seychelles
Nelson Mandela became president of this country in 1994	South Africa
Mobil discovered oil here in 1995	Equatorial Guinea
A Portuguese explorer established a colony here in 1493	São Tomé and Príncipe
Biggest country not part of mainland Africa	Madagascar
Has Mt. Kilimanjaro	Tanzania
The largest landlocked country	Chad
The smallest country in continental Africa	Gambia
The poorest country in the world	Burundi
Sometimes called the "Pearl of Africa"	Uganda
Has never been colonized	Ethiopia
Has the world's oldest university	Morocco
Has Victoria Falls	Zambia
Contains the Namib desert	Namibia
Muammar Gadaffi ruled here until 2011	Libya
The name translates to 'lion mountain'	Sierra Leone
Isaias Afwerki has been the only president of this country	Eritrea
Part of the W National Park is located here	Niger
Has the most elephants of any country in the world	Botswana
The world's youngest country	South Sudan
Zomba was its' former capital	Malawi
Bitcoin is an official currency here	Central African Republic
One of the cleanest countries on Earth	Rwanda
Home to "Africa's last Eden"	Gabon
Has officially 'abolished' slavery thrice	Mauritania
No one lived here until 1456	Cape Verde
Held its' first democratic election in 2010	Guinea