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The Africa Region of the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) includes the following countries:

  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Benin
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Cape Verde
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Cote d’lvoire
  • DjiboutiM
  • Egypt
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • Sudan
  • Swaziland
  • Togo
  • Tunisia
  • Uganda
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Regional President

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Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame

Sightsavers’ Global Advocacy Advisor
Ground Floor, The Elizabeth
No.68A Senchi link, Accra

GHANA

Regional Board Members

S.
No.
Designation Name & Address
1 Secretary Martin Kieti
Kenya Institute for the Blind (Compound)
P.O. Box 27787 – 00506
Nairobi
KENYA
2 Treasurer Frederick Haga
Ministry of Education
(Special Needs)
P.O. Box 30040 – 00100
Nairobi
KENYA
3 Country Representative ETHIOPIA Tigabu Geberemedhin
4 Country Representative GHANA Dr Peter Obeng Asamoa
Ghana Blind Union
P.O. Box AC 496
Barnes Road, Accra
GHANA
5 Country Representative LIBERIA Beyan G. Kota
Liberia Christian Association of the Blind
Vai Town Community
Robertsfield Highway
Paynesville City, Monrovia
LIBERIA
6 Country Representative MALAWI Ezekiel Kumwenda
Malawi Union of the Blind
P.O. Box 5092, Limbe
MALAWI
7 Country Representative NIGERIA David Okon
First Bank Nigeria
Samuel Asabia House
35 Marina
P.O. Box 5216
Lagos
NIGERIA
8 Country Representative RWANDA Donatilla Kanimba
Rwanda Union of the Blind
P.O. Box 1527
Kigali Poids Lourd Road
Muhima Nyarugenge
Kigali
RWANDA
9 Country Representative SOUTH AFRICA Cathy Donaldson
10 Country Representative TOGO Ayassou Komivi
11 Country Representative UGANDA Dr Niyisabwa Odette
Department of Community and Advisability Studies
Faculty of Special Needs and Rehabilitation
Kyambogo University
P.O. Box 1 Kyambogo
Kampala
UGANDA
12 INGO Representative Angela Affran
13 AFUB Representative Ishumael Zhou
Africa Union for the Blind
14 Board Member Nafisa Baboo
Light for the World
Niederhofstr, 26
1120 Vienna
AUSTRIA