Literal Country Names- Africa

Can you guess the African country's name based off of its literal translation?
Some are EXTREMELY OBVIOUS... but it is what it is.
Hint: Don't Overthink!
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Our Canoe
The Plateau
The River
Land of Honest Men
Country of the Blacks
Black Bissau
Kingdom of Swaziland
Land of the Black Men
Frontier
The Far West
Coast of Ivory
The King's Land
Democratic Republic of Mountains
Land of the Libu
Islands of the Moon
Land of Musa al Biq
Those Who Went Away
Southern Country
of the Blacks
Kingdom of Mountains
Saint Thomas And Prince
Stone Enclosure
The Vast Place
River of Rivers
Land by the Water
Land of the Sotho
Republic in the Center of Africa
Land of Argument
Republic of Seychelles
Free Country
Beautiful Southern Land
Lion Mountains
Land of the Niger River
Hippopotamus
Land of the Ganda People
Land of Rwandans
Land of Ngola
Land of the Red Sea
Hooded Cloak
Green Cape
Land of Soma
Home of the Rundi Speakers
Land of the Burnt Faces
Land of Governor Van Nassau
Land of Flames
Land of the Large Lake
Land of Tanganika and Zanzibar
River of Prawns
Equatorial Land of
the Black Men
Land of the Mauri
Mountain of Whiteness
The Islands
Land of Tunis
Holy Land
The Great River
Chad
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Comoros
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
DR Congo
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
São Tome and Principé
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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