Africa - Tier Placements

Adapted from U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2023

Tier 1 - Countries whose governments fully meet the [Trafficking Victims Protection Act] TVPA’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.

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Tier 2 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.

Angola	Ethiopia	Mali	Sudan
Benin	The Gambia	Mauritania	Tanzania
Burkina Faso	Ghana	Namibia	Togo
Burundi	Guinea	Niger	Uganda
Cameroon	Kenya	Nigeria	Zambia
Central African Rep	Malawi	Rwanda	Zimbabwe
Congo (DRC)	Lesotho	Senegal
Cote d'Ivoire	Liberia	Sierra Leone

Tier 2 Watch List - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards, and for which:

a) the estimated number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing and the country is not taking proportional concrete actions;

b) there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecution, and convictions of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials.

Botswana	Eswatini	Madagascar	Mozambique
Congo (ROC)	Gabon	Mauritius	South Africa

Tier 3 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.

Algeria	Djibouti	Eritrea	South Sudan
Chad	Equatorial Guinea	Guinea-Bissau