The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (acronym: ANOCA; , ACNOA, ) is an international organization which represents the current 54 National Olympic Committees of Africa. It serves as the successor to Standing Committee of African Sports or Comité permanent du sport africain founded in 1965 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

It is affiliated with the International Olympic Committee and its affiliated bodies, including the Association of National Olympic Committees, and serves as the continental association of Africa.

The organization's flagship event is the quadrennial African Games, held since 1965.

History The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) was founded on June 28, 1981, in Lome, Togo. In July 1965, ANOCA's predecessor, the Standing Committee of African Sports (SCAS) was founded in Brazzaville as Comité Permanent du Sport Africain (CPSA). Consequently, that title for the sports continental body changed to the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) on 14 December 1966 in Bamako, Mali.

On 4 March 2023, ANOCA announced their support for the International Olympic Committee's decision to reinstate Russian and Belarusian athletes as neutrals amidst the Russo-Ukrainian war, as well as the countries' participation in the Olympics.Ассоциация национальных олимпийских комитетов Африки выступила за допуск российских спортсменов к Олимпиаде-2024 в нейтральном статусе

Member countries In the following table, the year in which the NOC was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also given if it is different from the year in which the NOC was created.

Nation Code National Olympic Committee President Created ANOCA Member IOC member Ref.North Africa Zone ALG Algerian Olympic Committee Abderrahmane Hammad 1963 1965 LBA Libyan Olympic Committee Gamal Ezzarrugh 1962 1963 MAR Moroccan National Olympic Committee Faïçal Laraïchi 1959 1959 TUN Tunisian Olympic Committee Mehrez Boussayene 1957 1965 West Africa Zone BEN Benin National Olympic and Sports Committee Marius Francisco 1962 TBD BUR Burkinabé National Olympic and Sports Committee Jean-Pascal Kinda 1965/1972 1965 CPV Comité Olímpico Caboverdeano Filomena Fortes 1989/1993 TBD GAM The Gambia National Olympic Committee Beatrice Allen 1972/1976 TBD GHA Ghana Olympic Committee Ben Nunoo Mensah 1950/1951 1965 GUI Guinean National Olympic and Sports Committee Nabi Camara 1964/1965 TBD GBS Comité Olímpico da Guiné-Bissau Sérgio Mané 1992/1995 TBD CIV Comité National Olympique de Côte d'Ivoire Lassana Palenfo 1962/1963 1965 LBR Liberia National Olympic Committee Philipbert S. Browne 1954/1955 TBD MLI Comité National Olympique et Sportif du Mali Habib Sissoko 1962/1963 1965 MTN Comité National Olympique et Sportif Mauritanien Abderrahmane Ethmane 1962/1979 TBD NIG Nigerien Olympic and National Sports Committee Issaka Ide 1964 1965 NGR Nigeria Olympic Committee Habu Gumel 1950/1951 1965 SEN Comité National Olympique et Sportif Sénégalais Mamadou D. Ndiaye 1961/1963 1965 SLE National Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone Patrick Coker 1964 TBD TOG Togolese National Olympic Committee Deladem Akpaki 1963/1965 1965 Central Africa Zone CMR Cameroon Olympic and Sports Committee Hamad Kalkaba Malboum 1963 1965 CAF Comité National Olympique et Sportif Centrafricain Gilles Gilbert Gresenguet 1964/1965 1965 CHA Chadian Olympic and Sports Committee Abakar Djermah Aumi 1963/1964 1965 CGO Comité National Olympique et Sportif Congolais Raymond Ibata 1964 1965 COD Comité Olympique Congolais Marcel Amos Mbayo Kitenge 1963/1968 1965 GEQ Comité Olímpico de Guinea Ecuatorial Manuel Sabino Asumu Cawan 1980/1984 TBD GAB Comité Olympique Gabonais Léon Louis Folquet 1965/1968 1965 STP Comité Olímpico de São Tomé e Príncipe João Manuel da Costa Alegre Afonso 1979/1993 TBD East Africa Zone BDI Burundi National Olympic Committee Lydia Nsekera 1990/1993 TBD DJI Djibouti National Olympic and Sports Committee Aïcha Garad Ali 1983/1984 TBD EGY Egyptian Olympic Committee Hesham Mohamed Tawfeq Hatab 1910 1965 ERI Eritrean National Olympic Committee Luul Fisshaye 1996/1999 TBD ETH Ethiopian Olympic Committee Birhane Kidanemariam 1948/1954 1965 KEN National Olympic Committee of Kenya Paul Tergat 1955 1965 RWA Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee Valens Munyabagisha 1984 TBD SEY Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association Antonio Gopal 1979 TBD SOM Somali Olympic Committee Abdullahi Ahmed Tarabi 1959/1972 TBD SSD South Sudan National Olympic Committee Wilson Deng Kuoirot 2015 2015 SUD Sudan Olympic Committee Hashim Haroun Ahmed 1956/1959 1965 TAN Tanzania Olympic Committee Gulam Abdulla Rashid 1968 1965 UGA Uganda Olympic Committee Donald Rukare 1950/1956 1965 Southern Africa Zone ANG Angolan Olympic Committee Gustavo Dias Vaz da Conceição 1979/1980 TBD BOT Botswana National Olympic Committee Botsang Tshenyego 1978/1980 TBD COM Comité Olympique et Sportif des Iles Comores Madiane Mohamed Issa 1979/1993 TBD SWZ Eswatini Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association Peter Shongwe 1971/1972 TBD LES Lesotho National Olympic Committee Matlohang Moiloa-Ramoqopo 1971/1972 TBD MAD Comité Olympique Malgache Siteny Thierry Randrianasoloniaiko 1963/1964 1965 MAW Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association of Malawi Jappie Mhango 1968 TBD MRI Mauritius Olympic Committee Philippe Hao Thyn Voon Ha Shun 1971/1972 TBD MOZ Comité Olímpico Nacional de Moçambique Anibal Manave 1979 TBD NAM Namibia National Olympic Committee Ndeulipula Hamutumwa 1990/1991 TBD RSA South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee Barry Hendricks 1991 TBD ZAM National Olympic Committee of Zambia Alfred Foloko 1964 1965 ZIM Zimbabwe Olympic Committee Thabani Gonye 1934/1980 TBD

ANOCA Regional Zones ANOCA Zone 1 – North Zone

ANOCA Zone 2 – West Zone A

ANOCA Zone 3 – West Zone B

ANOCA Zone 4 – Central Zone

ANOCA Zone 5 – Central-East Zone

ANOCA Zone 6 – Southern Zone A

ANOCA Zone 7 – Islands

ANOCA Presidents S. No. Name Country Tenure 1. Anani Matthia 1981–1989 2. Jean-Claude Ganga 1989–1999 3. Francis Nyangweso 1999–2001 4. Alpha Ibrahim Diallo 2001–2005 5. Lassana Palenfo 2005–2018 6. Mustapha Berraf 2018–present

ANOCA's programme Encouraging mediation and conciliation between NOCs and governments Building the foundations of an ambitious sports policy Providing young athletes with the conditions for success Promoting sports initiatives Promoting Olympic ideals and values in Africa Taking part in the fight against doping, corruption, violence and pandemics Working to bring peoples together through sport to build a peaceful Africa

Events African Games African Youth Games – first held in Rabat, Morocco in 2010 (events also in Casablanca). African Beach Games ANOCA U-23 Championship/Olympic Qualifying Tournament ANOCA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament African School Games

See also Sport in Africa African Sports Confederation of Disabled

References

External links Official website African Sports Confederation of Disabled (ASCOD) Official website