October 2002

Country Time period Average Area Burned Annually (ha) Algeria 1981- 1991 33409 Angola ~ ~ Benin ~ ~ Botswana ~ ~ Burkina Faso ~ ~ Burundi ~ ~ Cameroon ~ ~ Cape Verde ~ ~ Central African Republic ~ ~ Chad ~ ~ Comoros ~ ~ Congo ~ ~ Côte d’Ivoire 1983-1998 5 437 Djibouti ~ ~ Egypt ~ ~ Equatorial Guinea ~ ~ Eritrea ~ ~ Ethiopia 1990-2000 1 218 Gabon ~ ~ Gambia ~ ~ Ghana ~ ~ Guinea ~ ~ Guinea Bissau ~ ~ Kenya 1990-1994,
1997,1999 10 297 Lesotho ~ ~ Liberia ~ ~ Libya Arab Jamahiriy 1983 -1985 31 Madagascar ~ ~ Malawi ~ ~ Mali ~ ~ Mauritania ~ ~ Mauritius ~ ~ Morocco 1960 – 1999 2 856 Mozambique ~ ~ Namibia ~ ~ Niger ~ ~ Nigeria ~ ~ Reunion ~ ~ Rwanda ~ ~ Sao Tome & Principe ~ ~ Senegal 1993 750 000 Seychelles ~ ~ Sierra Leone ~ ~ Somalia ~ ~ South Africa 1983; 1989; 1992; 1994; 4 993 Sudan ~ ~ Swaziland ~ ~ Tanzania ~ ~ Togo ~ ~ Tunisia 1981 – 1990 1423 Uganda ~ ~ Western Sahara ~ ~ Zaire ~ ~ Zambia ~ ~ Zimbabwe 1992 2100

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