◆ Coverage
Four registers of fifty-four states. Here is the list.
Most African regulators do not publish their product register, and some publish it somewhere nothing on their own site links to. We name the four we hold and date them, and put the states we do not hold underneath with what they import in food and drink a year — so you can see exactly what is missing and what it is worth.
- 4 / 54
- registers live
- $8.25B
- of imports covered
- $61.79B
- food and drink into Africa
◆ What we hold
Four registers, and what is actually in each one
Contact details are published for Ghana; the other three registers carry none. We show that plainly rather than pricing all four as if they were the same product.
| Market | Importers | European-made | Contact | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | NAFDAC — National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control | 502 | 256 | 1,990 | none | 2026-09-04 |
| Rwanda | Rwanda FDA — Food and Drugs Authority | 66 | 26 | 242 | none | 2026-09-04 |
| Tanzania | TBS — Tanzania Bureau of Standards | 547 | 143 | 2,198 | none | 2026-09-04 |
| Ghana | FDA Ghana — Food and Drugs Authority | 1,935 | 583 | 6,595 | 1,052 | 2026-09-04 |
Expired registrations are removed before a company is counted. Registers cover the domestic market, so free-zone and transit traders never appear in any of these numbers.
◆ What we do not hold
The 39 we are still asking for
Ranked by what each imports in food and drink a year, from UN Comtrade. A blank means Comtrade has no recent return for that country either.
Egypt$14.87B
Morocco$8.22B
South Africa$4.58B
Kenya$3.37B
Côte d'Ivoire$2.92B
Tunisia$2.77B
Ethiopia$2.32B
Senegal$2.17B
Djibouti$2.01B
Mozambique$1.38B
Cameroon$1.16B
DR Congo$1.15B
Zimbabwe$1.09B
Republic of the Congo$970.8M
Gabon$641.0M
Namibia$579.4M
Togo$507.1M
Liberia$506.7M
Angola$386.3M
Eswatini$365.5M
Lesotho$355.2M
Benin$309.8M
Gambia$176.6M
Burkina Faso$158.3M
CAR$129.3M
Seychelles$116.3M
Comoros$112.7M
Mauritius$109.7M
Malawi$95.0M
Zambia$7.3M
Madagascar$6.8M
Botswana—
Uganda—
Cabo Verde—
Burundi—
Mali—
Niger—
Mauritania—
Sao Tome—
If your authority publishes a register we have missed, or you work for one and would like to be included, here is what inclusion means.